Atmospheric Pollution and Hospitalization for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases in the City of Manaus from 2008 to 2012

Table 1

Basic descriptive parameters in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, from 2008 to 2012.

	Respiratory diseases		Cardiovascular diseases	PM2.5	Temperature	Humidity
	Children	Elderly	Elderly
Mean	13.3	3.2	9.0	13.5	22.7	80.0
Standard deviation	8.1	2.1	4.0	9.1	4.0	15.1
Minimum	0.0	0.0	0.0	10.0	1.5	18.6
Maximum	50.0	13.0	30.0	117.4	37.3	99.2
25^th	11.0	3.0	9.0	10.0	23.1	67.8
50^th	11.0	3.0	9.0	10.0	23.8	85.7
75^th	17.0	4.0	12.0	13.7	24.5	92.3

PM_2.5: particulate matter (PM_2.5 in μg/m³).