Effects of high summer temperatures on mortality in 50 Spanish cities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Periods of high temperature have been widely found to be associated with excess mortality but with variable relationships in different cities. How these specifics depend on climatic and other characteristics of cities is not well understood. We assess summer temperature-mortality relationships using data from 50 provincial capitals in Spain, during the period 1990-2004.

Methods

Poisson time series regression analyses were applied to daily temperature and mortality data, adjusting for potential confounding seasonal factors. Associations of heat with mortality were summarised for each city as the risk increments at the 99th compared to the 90th percentiles of the whole-year temperature distributions, as predicted from spline curves.

Results

Risk increments av

SUBMITTER: Tobias A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4078369 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature