The association between temperature and alcohol- and substance-related disorder hospital visits in New York State.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Limited evidence exists on how temperature increases are associated with hospital visits from alcohol- and substance-related disorders, despite plausible behavioral and physiological pathways.

Methods

In the present study, we implemented a case-crossover design, which controls for seasonal patterns, long-term trends, and non- or slowly-varying confounders, with distributed lag non-linear temperature terms (0-6 days) to estimate associations between daily ZIP Code-level temperature and alcohol- and substance-related disorder hospital visit rates in New York State during 1995-2014. We also examined four substance-related disorder sub-causes (cannabis, cocaine, opioid, sedatives).

Results

Here we show that, for alcohol-related disorders, a daily increase in te

SUBMITTER: Parks RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10522658 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature