Burden of cause-specific mortality attributable to heat and cold: A multicity time-series study in Jiangsu Province, China.
Burden of cause-specific mortality attributable to heat and cold: A multicity time-series study in Jiangsu Province, China.
Environ Int. 2020 Jul 31;144:105994
Authors: Ma Y, Zhou L, Chen K
Abstract
Previous epidemiological studies primarily examined the temperature-related mortality burden of all-cause or cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and respiratory diseases. However, evidence on the heat- and cold-attributable mortality burden from other specific causes is limited. This paper aimed to systematically examine the association of heat and cold with a comprehensive spectrum of plausible temperature-related diseases, and to estimate the mortality burdens attributable to heat and cold. In the time-series study of 11 cities in Jiangsu, China, distributed lag non-linear models were applied to estimate city-specific temperature-mortality associations, and then meta-analysis was conducted to pool the estimates. A total of 1,368,648 cases of death were included in this study. Both extreme heat and cold were associated with increased mortality risks from all-cause, CVD, respiratory diseases, nervous diseases, and external causes. Short-term exposures to heat and cold were associated with excess burden of mortality for several specific diseases, accounting for 16.38% (95% eCI, 7.27-22.31%) for myocardial infarction (MI), 12.41% (95% eCI, 8.81-15.07%) for stroke, 27.97% (95% eCI, 18.42-33.35%) for hypertensive heart disease, 25.18% (95% eCI, 18....
Source: Environment International - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ma Y, Zhou L, Chen K Tags: Environ Int Source Type: research
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