Ambient heat and diabetes hospitalizations: Does the timing of heat exposure matter?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although ambient heat exposure is linked with diabetes mortality, the impacts of heat exposure on diabetes-related hospitalizations remain controversial. Previous research did not examine the timing of heat-diabetes associations and relation with comorbidities/risk factors.

Objective

We examined the association between heat exposure and diabetes-related hospitalizations in the transitional and summer months and identified populations vulnerable to heat.

Methods

We conducted a time-stratified case-crossover study. Data on diabetes hospital admissions (primary diagnosis of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, 2013-2020) were collected by the New York State (NYS) Department of Health under the state legislative mandate. We treated temperature and air pollutants as cont

SUBMITTER: Gao D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12303727 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature