Evaluating spatial patterns of seasonal ozone exposure and incidence of respiratory emergency room visits in Dallas-Fort Worth

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Study area

Data: sources and preprocessing

Component 1a: mapping the spatial patterns of respiratory ERV incidence rates

Component 1b: mapping the spatial patterns of ozone exposures

Component 2: geostatistical analysis and visualization

Component 3: concentration response curves

Results

Component 1: mapping the spatial patterns

Component 2: geostatistical analysis and visualization

Component 3: concentration response curves

Discussion

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Average 8-hour daily ozone concentrations by quarter from 2007–2016.

Each data point contains the quarterly 8-hour daily average by year and quarter for each of the eighteen sensors in the DFW study area.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11066/supp-1

Statistics for ERV data.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11066/supp-2

Respiratory incidence rates and quarterly differences.

The data contained is a summary of the respiratory incidence rates as found in Figure 7.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11066/supp-3

Ozone exposures and differences quarterly.

The data is a summary of the ozone exposures as visualized in Figure 8.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11066/supp-4

Processed ERV dataset by diagnostic code by quarter by zipcode.

This is the processed ERV datasets approved for release by the contractual owner of the data, the Texas DSHS. This data set has been adequately suppressed per the DSHS and processed through the second level of incidence as shown in Figure 4.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11066/supp-5

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Kari Northeim conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Constant Marks conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Chetan Tiwari conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Human Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

Statewide emergency room visit (ERV) public use data file was obtained from the Texas Department of State and Health Services (Texas DSHS) for the years 2007–2017 after first obtaining Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval through the University of North Texas Cayuse IRB system (approval IRB 18-477).

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

Raw data are available in the Supplemental Files.

Statewide emergency room visit (ERV) public use data file can obtained from the Texas Department of State and Health Services (Texas DSHS) for the years 2007–2016 after first obtaining Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval.

Funding

The authors received no funding for this work.

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