Association of Temperature Thresholds with Heat Illness- and Cardiorespiratory-Related Emergency Visits during Summer Months in Alaska.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent record-breaking hot temperatures in Alaska have raised concerns about the potential human health implications of heat exposure among this unacclimated population.

Objectives

We estimated cardiorespiratory morbidity associated with days above summer (June-August) heat index (HI, apparent temperature) thresholds in three major population centers (Anchorage, Fairbanks, and the Matanuska-Susitna Valley) for the years 2015-2019.

Methods

We implemented time-stratified case-crossover analyses of emergency department (ED) visits for International Classification of Diseases, 10^th Revision codes indicative of heat illness and major cardiorespiratory diagnostic codes using data from the Alaska Health Facilities Data Reporting Program. Using co

SUBMITTER: Hahn MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10208429 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature