Search for: [Abstract = "nsists of internist patients suffering from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. The control group consisted of surgical patients with abdominal ailments\: abdominal pain, acute abdomen and diarrhea. The correlation between the average concentrations from 7 day spreceding the disease and the 3\-day average number of register ed emergency calls was analyzed. Average concentration of PM10 and PM2.5 dusts calculated on the basis of data obtained from the Provincial Inspectorate of Environmental Protection. Readings from Kraków measurement stations\: Krasickiego Avenue and Kurdwanów were used. Information on the emergency department came from the database of the computer system of the University Hospital. Pearson's correlation was used in statistical analysis. The study included data from 874 days of observation, during which 14405 patients were diagnosed with SOR due to the above mentioned diseases. The study group included 6353 persons, 4823 persons in the winter control group and 3229 persons in the summer control group. \; Results\: Statistical results showed a positive correlation between variables. 93% of the correlation coefficients \(R\) calculated in the study group were in the range of 0.23 \- 0.52. They were statistically significant – p <0.05. In the control groups the R coefficient ranged from \-0.45 to 0.1 and only one result was statistically significant with p <0.05. Thu"]

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