Association of daily asthma emergency department visits and hospital admissions with ambient air pollutants among the pediatric Medicaid population in Detroit: Time-series and time-stratified case-crossover analyses with threshold effects
Li S, Batterman S, Wasilevich E, Wahl R, Wirth J, Su F, Mukherjee B. Association of daily asthma emergency department visits and hospital admissions with ambient air pollutants among the pediatric Medicaid population in Detroit: Time-series and time-stratified case-crossover analyses with threshold effects. Environmental Research 2011, 111: 1137-1147. PMID: 21764049, DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2011.06.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAmbient air pollutionGeneralized additive modelCase-crossover designConditional logistic regressionPediatric Medicaid populationAir pollutionAsthma morbidityAssociated with ambient air pollutionMedicaid populationEffects of air pollutionAsthma emergency department visitsAdditive modelLogistic regressionConditional logistic regression modelsAcute asthma eventsAssociations of SO2Interquartile range increaseCase-crossover analysisEmergency department visitsCase-crossover studyPM2.5 concentrationsPM2.5 thresholdLogistic regression modelsStrong effect sizesPM2.5Asthma exacerbation and proximity of residence to major roads: a population-based matched case-control study among the pediatric Medicaid population in Detroit, Michigan
Li S, Batterman S, Wasilevich E, Elasaad H, Wahl R, Mukherjee B. Asthma exacerbation and proximity of residence to major roads: a population-based matched case-control study among the pediatric Medicaid population in Detroit, Michigan. Environmental Health 2011, 10: 34. PMID: 21513554, PMCID: PMC3224543, DOI: 10.1186/1476-069x-10-34.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsConditional logistic regressionPopulation-based matched case-control studyPediatric Medicaid populationCase-control studyMedicaid populationProximity of residenceLogistic regressionConditional logistic regression modelsElevated risk of asthmaRisk of asthmaEmergency department visitsCase-control analysisLogistic regression modelsHigh-risk populationTraffic-related pollutantsAsthma outcomesDepartment visitsAsthma eventsAsthma claimAsthma-related eventsAsthma casesEcological biasOdds ratioInvestigate associationsMethodThis study