Temperature-related mortality: a systematic review and investigation of effect modifiers.

ABSTRACT: Understanding which populations are vulnerable and which factors affect vulnerability to temperature-mortality associations is important to reduce the health burden from current day weather extremes and climate change. We reviewed population-based studies on the impact of temperature on mortality and assessed the vulnerability to temperature-mortality associations systematically. We identified 207 studies published between 1980 and 2017 and summarized findings on effect modification based on individual- and community-level characteristics. In our assessment of vulnerability to temperature-mortality associations, we found strong evidence of effect modification for several individual-level factors such as age and sex. We also found limited or suggestive evidence for other individual-level fa

SUBMITTER: Son JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12362558 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature