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Subject: FW: results of your 2012 paper in Environmental Health

Attachments: Figure 2.xls

‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐ 

From: Janine Wichmann [mailto:Janine.Wichmann@up.ac.za]  

Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 2:52 AM

To: Luben, Tom

Cc: jwichmannza@yahoo.co.uk

Subject: Re: results of your 2012 paper in Environmental Health

Dear Tom

Please find attached.

Kind regards

Janine

Senior Lecturer (Environmental Health)

School of Health Systems and Public Health Health Sciences Faculty University of Pretoria

Room 5‐11 HW Snyman Building North Bophelo Road Pretoria South Africa  

Tel: +27 12 354 2065/2378

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>>> "Luben, Tom" 06/11/13 3:47 AM >>>  

Dear Dr. Wichmann,  

I have been reviewing your 2012 paper, "Apparent temperature and acute myocardial infarction

hospital admissions in Copenhagen, Denmark: a case‐crossover study" (Environmental Health

11(19)), for inclusion in our upcoming Integrated Science Assessment on Oxides of Nitrogen. I

was hoping that you would be willing to share with me the quantitative values (i.e., effect

estimates and 95% confidence intervals) that were used to create Figure 2?  

Any help you are able to provide would be greatly appreciated.  

Thank you,  

Tom Luben, PhD  

National Center for Environmental Assessment  

Office of Research and Development  

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  

RTP, NC 27711  

(919) 541‐5762
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Effect estimates and 95% confidence intervals for Figure 2 (Envir HealthJ 11[19],

Wichmann et al 2012 http://www.ehjournal.net/content/11/1/19)
2

Effect estimates and 95% confidence intervals for Figure 2 (Envir HealthJ 11[19], Wichmann et al 2012

http://www.ehjournal.net/content/11/1/19)

WARM

All AMI

1999-2006

PM10 

Tappmax Lag0 Lag1 Lag2 Lag3 Lag4 Lag5 CA2 CA3 CA4 CA5

Max 2.265631 2.486275 1.56602 4.354068 5.384781 3.566587 2.310107 2.617319 3.208662 3.895321

Min -3.68834 -3.48016 -4.58358 -1.84309 -0.62203 -2.12802 -4.50272 -5.26728 -5.01129 -5.2386

HR -0.756 -0.54167 -1.55679 1.208065 2.337314 0.679028 -1.15498 -1.40376 -0.98658 -0.77669

n 6623 6616 6618 6598 6597 6582 6447 6284 6101 5924

IQRrd 14 14 14 14 14 14 12 12 11 11

COLD

All AMI

1999-2006

PM10 

Tappmax Lag0 Lag1 Lag2 Lag3 Lag4 Lag5 CA2 CA3 CA4 CA5

Max 3.665533 5.240623 3.744617 3.551627 4.041433 1.30764 5.321268 5.572532 6.385334 6.610929

Min -2.03732 -0.1874 -1.55628 -2.2264 -1.75062 -4.41704 -0.9358 -0.58775 -0.66568 -0.7582

HR 0.773771 2.490681 1.059421 0.621149 1.103938 -1.59632 2.144833 2.4461 2.79939 2.860391

n 7524 7522 7506 7523 7519 7492 7196 6903 6646 6406

IQRrd 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 13 13 12
3

Effect estimates and 95% confidence intervals for Figure 2 (Envir HealthJ 11[19],

Wichmann et al 2012 http://www.ehjournal.net/content/11/1/19)
4

Effect estimates and 95% confidence intervals for Figure 2 (Envir HealthJ 11[19], Wichmann et al 2012

http://www.ehjournal.net/content/11/1/19)

WARM

All AMI

1999-

2006

NO2 

Tappmax Lag0 Lag1 Lag2 Lag3 Lag4 Lag5 CA2 CA3 CA4 CA5

Max 3.993335 7.126603 8.201316 8.627071 4.022866 7.178912 6.25798 7.747468 9.169653 8.944675

Min -4.31597 -1.28672 -0.25647 0.248004 -3.8394 -0.90675 -2.12595 -0.07601 0.443858 -0.43777

HR -0.2478 2.833936 3.886385 4.353472 0.014503 3.056814 1.979894 3.76202 4.715907 4.147853

n 7401 7389 7391 7397 7394 7378 7260 7141 7025 6886

IQRrd 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 4 4 4

COLD

All AMI

1999-

2006

NO2 

Tappmax Lag0 Lag1 Lag2 Lag3 Lag4 Lag5 CA2 CA3 CA4 CA5

Max 3.831234 6.395996 7.35115 4.331469 1.943991 4.211561 5.740041 6.584578 7.309201 5.763503

Min -3.1088 -0.83749 -0.0005 -2.90972 -5.17263 -3.29027 -1.5198 -0.44205 -0.57394 -1.0734

HR 0.301212 2.715597 3.610139 0.645773 -1.67869 0.390597 2.045582 3.011366 3.292456 2.287945

n 8322 8289 8291 8287 8275 8259 8134 7965 7824 7689

IQRrd 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 5 5 4
5

Effect estimates and 95% confidence intervals for Figure 2 (Envir HealthJ 11[19],

Wichmann et al 2012 http://www.ehjournal.net/content/11/1/19)
6

Effect estimates and 95% confidence intervals for Figure 2 (Envir HealthJ 11[19], Wichmann et al 2012

http://www.ehjournal.net/content/11/1/19)

WARM

All AMI

1999-

2006

NO2max 

Tappmax Lag0 Lag1 Lag2 Lag3 Lag4 Lag5 CA2 CA3 CA4 CA5

Max 5.015147 6.010988 6.431435 9.164166 4.086842 6.789764 6.901651 8.209859 9.791656 10.42347

Min -3.15806 -2.0376 -2.2239 0.46627 -4.16034 -1.66665 -1.64742 -0.9292 0.514441 0.213921

HR 0.845775 1.907268 2.012012 4.724957 -0.12183 2.474362 2.538056 3.539547 5.050687 5.19491

n 7448 7422 7426 7436 7420 7410 7299 7175 7051 6915

IQRrd 13 13 14 14 14 14 11 10 9 9

COLD

All AMI

1999-

2006

NO2max 

Tappmax Lag0 Lag1 Lag2 Lag3 Lag4 Lag5 CA2 CA3 CA4 CA5

Max 3.014585 5.481993 5.263776 3.070563 0.669863 3.771453 4.708826 5.704806 5.421779 4.482755

Min -3.90474 -1.72441 -1.96057 -4.07138 -6.44221 -3.71191 -2.54227 -1.96422 -2.23755 -2.83611

HR -0.50521 1.815052 1.587401 -0.56451 -2.9513 -0.04023 1.018238 1.798099 1.519905 0.756888

n 8372 8350 8350 8360 8333 8311 8192 8021 7879 7734

IQRrd 12 12 12 12 12 12 10 9 8 7
7

Effect estimates and 95% confidence intervals for Figure 2 (Envir HealthJ 11[19],

Wichmann et al 2012 http://www.ehjournal.net/content/11/1/19)
8

Effect estimates and 95% confidence intervals for Figure 2 (Envir HealthJ 11[19], Wichmann et al 2012

http://www.ehjournal.net/content/11/1/19)

WARM

All AMI

1999-

2006

CO 

Tappmax Lag0 Lag1 Lag2 Lag3 Lag4 Lag5 CA2 CA3 CA4 CA5

Max 5.101283 8.697689 10.30396 9.9775 6.409347 5.748732 8.25836 11.71289 13.41279 12.67321

Min -3.52087 -0.17372 1.617695 1.257183 -1.88996 -2.51053 -1.08487 1.403776 2.169302 1.120088

HR 0.697966 4.167588 5.871783 5.527304 2.175462 1.535156 3.481351 6.433591 7.644345 6.740456

n 7466 7439 7442 7454 7432 7412 7353 7252 7167 7054

IQRrd 0.084 0.084 0.083 0.083 0.083 0.082 0.078 0.076 0.075 0.072

COLD

All AMI

1999-

2006

CO 

Tappmax Lag0 Lag1 Lag2 Lag3 Lag4 Lag5 CA2 CA3 CA4 CA5

Max 3.415422 4.731504 5.710555 4.639461 1.74219 4.354732 4.699695 5.895883 6.476472 6.245139

Min -3.02229 -1.75389 -0.85865 -1.87252 -4.67754 -2.26352 -2.27149 -1.34085 -1.16316 -1.83139

HR 0.144852 1.436988 2.373275 1.331174 -1.51997 0.991405 1.154069 2.213491 2.585564 2.127068

n 8371 8348 8354 8358 8362 8349 8196 8037 7906 7784

IQRrd 0.126 0.125 0.123 0.122 0.125 0.123 0.114 0.102 0.096 0.093