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Two national-scale databases from Taiwan, the national health insurance database (NHIRD) and the Taiwan air quality-monitoring database (TAQMD), were linked to conduct this cohort study between 2003 and 2013. Cox proportional hazards regression with time-dependent modeling was used to evaluate the hazard ratio (HR) for PAOD with respect to daily exposure to air pollutants. The concentrations of each of the pollutants of interest (PM<jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>, NO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>, and CO) were categorized into four categories according to the daily average concentration of air pollutants for every quarter of the year, Q1 to Q4 (Q4 = highest). The cumulative incidence of PAOD was examined by Kaplan\u2013Meier analysis with two-tailed log-rank test. A total of 1,598 PAOD cases were identified during the 10-year follow-up period, along with 98,540 non-PAOD controls. In the multivariate analysis, after adjusting for age, gender, urbanization level, residential area, baseline comorbidities, and medications, the adjusted HRs were PM<jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub> = 1.14 (95% CI 1.13\u20131.16), NO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> = 1.03 (95% CI 1.02\u20131.04), and CO = 2.35 (95% CI 1.95\u20132.84). Kaplan\u2013Meier analysis showed that CO (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.0001) and PM<jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub> (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.0001) concentrations were strongly and positively associated with the cumulative incidence of PAOD during the follow-up period. 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