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Table 1 Mediation effect of power outage on the associations between major storms and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, NY, 2001–2013

From: Power outage mediates the associations between major storms and hospital admission of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Lags

Direct effect a

Indirect effect b

Estimated percent mediated by PO

(%, 95CI)

0

0.21 (0.13,0.29)

0.39 (0.27,0.50)

65.0 (48.7,79.3)

1

0.15 (0.08,0.23)

0.19 (0.13,0.25)

55.4 (36.7,76.2)

2

0.13 (0.05,0.21)

0.13 (0.08,0.17)

49.6 (28.5,76.5)

3

0.15 (0.07,0.22)

0.17 (0.11,0.23)

53.4 (31.9,77.0)

4

0.16 (0.08,0.23)

0.21 (0.14,0.28)

57.7 (37.9,78.2)

5

0.17 (0.09,0.25)

0.29 (0.19,0.39)

62.7 (42.1,81.6)

6

0.15 (0.06,0.24)

0.21 (0.13,0.28)

57.8 (36.1,81.4)

  1. a Direct effect: ADE, Average Direct Effects;
  2. b Indirect effect: ACME, Average Causal Mediation Effects