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Abstract #300507

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Activity Number: 47
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 8, 2004 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics and the Environment
Abstract - #300507
Title: Short-Term Respiratory Health Effects of Air Pollution in Metropolitan Chicago
Author(s): Vanja Dukic*+ and Paul J. Rathouz and Edward Naureckas and Dana Draghicescu and John Frederick and Chava Zibman and Alexis Zubrow
Companies: University of Chicago and University of Chicago and University of Chicago and University of Chicago and University of Chicago and University of Chicago and University of Chicago
Address: Dept. of Health Studies, Chicago, IL, 60637,
Keywords: space-time covariance functions ; space-time kriging ; parametric bootstrap ; ozone
Abstract:

Most recent studies of environmental effects on respiratory disorders have focused on aggregate analyses, with outcomes and exposure variables summarized by daily averages of available monitors over entire region of interest. In this project we use three time series of asthma-related outcomes in the Chicago metropolitan area (daily hospitalization counts, emergency department visits, and Albuterol purchases), aggregated at the ZIP code level, to identify linkages with measures of air quality at the spatial scale of individual neighborhoods, while allowing for neighborhood-specific effects. In addition, in the dataset at our disposal, each patient is given a unique identifying number, making it possible to examine subject-specific models of repeated asthma-related occurrences over the period of four summers.

This research is supported by EPA grant R-82940201-0. The abstract does not necessarily reflect EPA views.

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