Epidemiology

Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among Children in North Carolina

from Mirabelli, Maria C.; Flanders, W. Dana; Vaidyanathan, Ambarish; Beavers, Daniel P.; Gower, W. Adam

Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among... : Epidemiology death. We linked information about each death with county-level estimates of particulate matter ≤2.5 µm (PM2.5) and ozone (O3). Using the linked data, we conducted a case–crossover analysis of associations between PM2.5 and O3 lagged by 3–5 days with the odds of fatal asthma exacerbations. Re...