Heat Exposure and Cause-Specific Hospital Admissions in Spain: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More frequent and intense exposure to extreme heat conditions poses a serious threat to public health. However, evidence on the association between heat and specific diagnoses of morbidity is still limited. We aimed to comprehensively assess the short-term association between cause-specific hospital admissions and high temperature, including the added effect of temperature variability and heat waves and the effect modification by humidity and air pollution.

Methods

We used data on cause-specific hospital admissions, weather (i.e., temperature and relative humidity), and air pollution [i.e., fine particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5μm (PM2.5), fine particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤10μm (PM10), NO2, and ozone (O3)] for 48 provinces in mainl

SUBMITTER: Achebak H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11110655 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature