Impacts of event-specific air quality improvements on total hospital admissions and reduced systemic inflammation in COPD patients

• Zili Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zili Zhang, Jian Wang, Fei Liu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

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• Jian Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zili Zhang, Jian Wang, Fei Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China, Division of Translational and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

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• Fei Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zili Zhang, Jian Wang, Fei Liu

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

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• Liang Yuan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

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• Jili Yuan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

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• Lianghua Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

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• Nanshan Zhong,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

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• Wenju Lu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wlu92@yahoo.com

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China, Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5035-9287

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