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Data on daily mean concentrations of particles with aerodynamic diameter &lt;10\u2003\u03bcm (i. e. PM<jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub>) and &lt;2.5\u2003\u03bcm (i. e. PM<jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>), nitrogen dioxide (NO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>), sulphur dioxide (SO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>), and ozone (O<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub>) and data on meteorological variables were associated with asthma hospital admissions using Poisson's regression with generalized additive models for correction of yearly trend, temperature, humidity, day\u2010of\u2010week effect, holiday, influenza admissions and total hospital admission. The possibility of a lag effect of each pollutant and the interaction of different pollutants were also examined.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/jats:bold> The association between asthma admission with change of NO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>, PM<jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub>, PM<jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub> and O<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub> levels remained significant after adjustment for multi\u2010pollutants effect and confounding variables, with increase in asthma admission rate of 5.64% (3.21\u20138.14) at lag 3 for NO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>, 3.67% (1.52\u20135.86) at lag 4 for PM<jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub>, 3.24% (0.93\u20135.60) at lag 4 for PM<jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub> and 2.63% (0.64\u20134.67) at lag 2 for O<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub>. 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