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Table 1 Air pollutants and meteorological data

From: Incidence of osteoporosis and ambient air pollution in South Korea: a population-based retrospective cohort study

Variables

Mean

SD

IQR

Percentiles

Minimum

25th

50th

75th

Maximum

Air pollution

 PM2.5, μg/m3

23.1

4.4

7.0

16.0

20.3

22.0

27.3

30.0

 PM10, μg/m3

53.0

4.9

9.1

44.8

48.5

52.4

57.6

61.0

 CO, 10 ppm

5.9

0.7

1.1

5.2

5.3

5.6

6.4

7.0

 SO2, ppb

5.7

0.5

0.7

4.7

5.3

5.7

6.0

6.4

 NO2, ppb

25.3

1.9

2.1

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.1

29.1

Annual average weather conditions

 Temperature, °C

12.8

0.6

1.1

12.0

12.2

12.9

13.3

13.6

 Rainfall, mm

1486

395

444

792

1320

1451

1764

2044

 Wind speed, m/s

2.48

0.24

0.3

2.0

2.4

2.45

2.7

2.8

  1. SD Standard deviation, IQR Interquartile range. Levels of particulate matter < 10 μm (PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and carbon monoxide (CO) were measured between 2002 and 2015. Particulate matter < 2.5 μm (PM2.5) was measured in 2015. Temperature, rainfall, and wind speed were measured between 2003 and 2015. Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, Korea (https://data.kma.go.kr/climate/extremum/selectExtremumList.do?pgmNo=103)