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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of inpatients characteristics, air pollutants, and meteorological factors from 2017 to 2018

From: Risk and economic cost of hospitalization due to atrial fibrillation caused by air pollution: a multi-city time series analysis

Variable

Total

Min

Mean

SD

Max

Percentile

25th

50th

75th

Atrial fibrillation

5958.00

1.00

8.19

4.14

24.00

5.00

8.00

11.00

Age

        

  < 65 years

2061.00

1.00

3.00

2.05

12.00

1.00

3.00

4.00

  ≥ 65 years

3897.00

1.00

5.43

2.80

16.00

3.00

5.00

7.00

Gender

        

 Male

2856.00

1.00

4.00

2.44

15.00

2.00

4.00

5.00

 Female

3102.00

1.00

4.00

2.40

18.00

3.00

4.00

6.00

Season

        

 Warm

3089.00

1.00

8.42

4.22

23.00

5.00

8.00

11.00

 Cold

2869.00

1.00

7.00

4.02

24.00

5.00

7.00

10.00

Medical expense

        

 Total expense

19,222.17

0.01

3.23

3.67

27.52

0.54

1.02

6.14

 Out-of-pocket health payment

9353.13

0.00

1.57

2.38

19.25

0.17

0.41

2.23

Air pollutant

        

 PM2.5 (μg/m3)

–

3.03

42.80

32.32

264.62

20.50

33.50

54.22

 PM10 (μg/m3)

–

4.13

66.57

43.54

441.48

35.53

55.05

85.89

 NO2 (μg/m3)

–

2.03

29.80

15.47

127.10

18.40

26.40

38.00

 O3 (μg/m3)

–

3.93

83.42

42.23

299.50

52.54

75.41

109.21

 CO (μg/m3)

–

0.06

0.76

0.27

2.47

0.59

0.72

0.90

 SO2 (μg/m3)

–

1.04

10.62

5.39

77.28

7.05

9.57

12.83

Meteorological

–

       

 Temperature (℃)

–

− 9.51

17.63

7.38

34.39

10.76

17.98

23.90

 Humidity (%)

–

15.31

77.46

11.89

99.98

70.15

78.77

86.45

  1. Unit: million Chinese Yuan (CNY). The annual economic costs were measured with a fixed price in 2018
  2. Min Minimum, Max Maximum, SD Standard deviation, PM2.5 an average aerodynamic diameter of less than 2.5 μm, PM10 an average aerodynamic diameter of less than 10 μm, NO2 nitrogen dioxide, O3 ozone, CO carbon monoxide, SO2 sulfur dioxide