The association between climate, geography and respiratory syncitial virus hospitalizations among children in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study

Table 3 Conditional logistic regression for odds of RSV hospitalization among children in Ontario (including covariate: number of siblings) – sensitivity analysis

Adjusted model	OR	LCL	UCL	P-value²
Minimum daily temperature pre RSV¹	0.94	0.92	0.95	< 0.001
Neighbourhood Income quintile
1 - lowest income	1.26	1.03	1.53	0.02
2	0.98	0.80	1.19	0.81
3	1.03	0.85	1.25	0.78
4	1.02	0.84	1.24	0.83
5 - highest income	1	Ref	Ref	Ref
Rural
Yes	0.96	0.77	1.20	0.73
No	1	Ref	Ref	Ref
Distance to nearest hospital	1	0.99	1.01	0.45
Ecozones
1 - South	1.44	1.07	1.95	0.02
2 - North	1	Ref	Ref	Ref
Annual AQHI	0.84	0.65	1.10	0.20
Annual O3	1.02	0.98	1.05	0.38
Mothers number of live births	1.34	1.26	1.41	<.0001

RSV Respiratory syncytial virus, OR Odds ratio, LCL 95% lower confidence limit, UCL 95% upper confidence limit, Ref Reference value, AQHI Air quality health index (higher value = worse air quality), O3 Ground level ozone concentration
¹Mean minimum (low) daily temperature during 7–13 days period prior to RSV hospitalization (representing time during likely RSV exposure and infection)
²P < 0.05 represents statistical significance

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