Table 7

Attributable risks of mortality (1989–91) from different air quality variables

	PM₁₀, 1989–91   All locations		TSP, 1989–91   All locations		TSP, 1979–81   All locations		TSP, 1970–74   All locations		TSP, 1960–64   All locations
	Risk	SE	Risk	SE	Risk	SE	Risk	SE	Risk	SE
Ages 15–44	−0.0065	0.0368	0.0104	0.0285	0.0112	0.0242	−0.0050	0.0169	0.0344	0.0344
Ages 45–64	0.0061	0.0206	−0.0282	0.0175	−0.0031	0.0148	0.0023	0.0101	0.0619*	0.0173
Ages 65–74	−0.0245*	0.0152	−0.0328*	0.0138	0,0038	0.0115	0.0057	0.0082	0.0124	0.0126
Ages 76–84	0.0149	0.0125	−0.0254*	0.0108	0.0080	0.0094	0.0006	0.0067	0.0062	0.0102
Ages ≥85	0.0312*	0.0106	−0.0064	0.0090	0.0071	0.0081	0.0011	0.0059	0.0152	0.0084
Log mean	−0.0017	0.0115	−0.0088	0.0093	0.0091	0.0085	−0.0003	0.0062	0.0116	0.0097

	PM_2.5,1979–84  Alllocations		PM_2.5, 1999  Alllocations		PM₁₀, 1999  Alllocations		PM_2.5, 1999  1979–84 PM_2.5		PM_2..5, 1999  1960–64 TSP
Ages 15–44	0.0998	0.0936	−0.0353	0.0331	−0.0408	0.0365	0.1497	0.0980	0.0741	0.0554
Ages 45–64	0.1520*	0.0466	0.0500*	0.0187	0.0263	0.0206	0.1583*	0.0483	0.1099*	0.0300
Ages 65–74	0.0708*	0.0238	0.0525*	0.0147	−0.0070	0.0167	0.0544*	0.0255	0.0500*	0.0191
Ages 75–84	0.0385*	0.0199	0.0373*	0.0118	0.0039	0.0137	0.0425*	0.0203	0.0303*	0.0150
Ages ≥85	0.0400*	0.0161	0.0468*	0.0098	0.0209	0.0107	0.0628*	0.0161	0.0564*	0.0123
Log mean	0.0458*	0.0229	0.0052	0.0104	−0.0070	0.0116	0.0557*	0.0233	0.0311*	0.0156

	SO₄²⁻,1982–88  Alllocations		SO₄²⁻,1979–81  Alllocations		SO₄²⁻,1970–74  Alllocations		SO₄²⁻, 1960–64  Alllocations		Fine SO₄²⁻, 1979–84  Alllocations		SO₄²⁻, 1982–88  fine SO₄²⁻, 79–84		SO₄²⁻, 1979–81  fine SO₄²⁻
Ages 15–44	−0.0112	0.0095	−0.0037	0.0173	0.0353*	0.0177	0.0539*	0.0164	0.1522*	0.0665	0.0446	0.0351	0.0657	0.0568
Ages 45–64	0.0150*	0.0058	0.0321*	0.0092	0.0391*	0.0099	0.0323*	0.0080	0.1218*	0.0313	0.0335*	0.0155	0.0466*	0.0253
Ages 65–74	0.0130*	0.0037	0.0220*	0.0062	0.0183*	0.0064	0.0090	0.0054	0.0590*	0.0159	0.0225*	0.0095	0.0379*	0.0113
Ages 75–84	0.0097*	0.0029	0.0187*	0.0051	0.0115*	0.0050	0.0009	0.0042	0.0383*	0.0131	0.0186*	0.0081	0.0304*	0.0095
Ages ≥85	0.0073*	0.0026	0.0180*	0.0042	0.0169*	0.0047	0.0106*	0.0034	0.0323*	0.0099	0.0102	0.0063	0.0174*	0.0077
Log mean	−0.0042	0.0032	−0.0000	0.0050	0.0044	0.0053	0.0084*	0.0042	0.0492*	0.0161	−0.0042	0.0032	0.0172	0.0126

	SO₂, 1989–91  Alllocations		SO₂, 1979–81  Alllocations		SO₂, 1970–74  Alllocations		SO₂, 1960–69  Alllocations
Ages 15–44	0.0276	0.0215	0.0441*	0.0193	0.0594*	0.0195	0.2469*	0.0625
Ages 45–64	0.0329*	0.0114	0.0309*	0.0102	0.0337*	0.0103	0.0199	0.0366
Ages 65–74	0.0271*	0.0087	0.0177*	0.0078	0.0134	0.0073	−0.0131	0.0166
Ages 76–84	0.0151*	0.0076	0.0114	0.0087	−0.0015	0.0065	−0.0154	0.0136
Ages ≥85	0.0179*	0.0016	0.0152*	0.0054	0.0055	0.0050	0.0118	0.0130
Log mean	0.0172*	0.0068	0.0108	0.0061	0.0177*	0.0063	0.0192	0.0159

	NO₂, 1989–91  Alllocations		NO₂, 1979–81  Alllocations		NO₂, 1970–74  Alllocations		NO₂, 1960–69  Alllocations
p<0.05.
Ages 15–44	0.1370*	0.0400	0.1021*	0.0341	0.1466*	0.0430	0.2545	0.1527
Ages 45–64	0.0840*	0.0211	0.0656*	0.0187	0.0395	0.0219	0.0422	0.0872
Ages 65–74	0.0047	0.0142	−0.0032	0.0133	−0.0098	0.0137	0.0134	0.0365
Ages 75–84	−0.0210	0.0123	−0.0221*	0.0094	−0.0315*	0.0117	−0.0192	0.0270
Ages ≥85	0.0144	0.0091	0.0018	0.0072	−0.0479*	0.0083	0.0226	0.0245
Log mean	0.0241*	0.0113	0.0179	0.0100	0.0098	0.0123	−0.0275	0.0428

	Peak O₃, 1989–91  All location		Peak O₃, 1979–81  All locations		Peak O₃, 1970–74  All locations		Peak O₃, 1989–91  ₃, 1970–74
Ages 15–44	0.0350	0.0628	0.0068	0.0342	−0.0313	0.0564	−0.1026	0.1207
Ages 45–64	0.0268	0.0348	0.0100	0.0179	−0.0122	0.0279	−0.0490	0.0675
Ages 65–74	0.0612*	0.0272	0.0331*	0.0132	0.0405*	0.0177	0.1249*	0.0512
Ages 75–84	0.0570*	0.0214	0.0272*	0.0115	0.0397*	0.0163	0.1211*	0.0413
Ages ≥85	0.0615*	0.0184	0.0306*	0.0100	0.0206	0.0131	0.0945*	0.0363
Log mean	0.0063	0.0186	0.0120	0.0108	−0.0042	0.0147	−0.0305	0.0364

	Peak CO, 1989–91  All locations		Peak CO, 1979–81  All locations		Peak CO, 1970–74  All locations		Peak CO, 1960–69  All locations
*p<0.05.
Ages 15–44	0.0404	0.0322	0.0522*	0.0227	0.0685*	0.0274	0.0578	0.0713
Ages 45–64	−0.0262	0.0162	−0.0047	0.0121	0.0022	0.0148	0.0583	0.0347
Ages 65–74	−0.0397*	0.0115	−0.0165*	0.0078	−0.0051	0.0091	0.0007	0.0174
Ages 75–84	−0.0464*	0.0097	−0.0268*	0.0068	−0.0158*	0.0079	−0.0245	0.0130
Ages ≥85	−0.0209*	0.0073	−0.0027	0.0055	−0.0069	0.0060	−0.0138	0.0113
Log mean	−0.0178	0.0098	−0.0020	0.0065	0.0038	0.0077	0.0041	0.0176