Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although studies have provided estimates of premature deaths attributable to either heat or cold in selected countries, none has so far offered a systematic assessment across the whole temperature range in populations exposed to different climates. We aimed to quantify the total mortality burden attributable to non-optimum ambient temperature, and the relative contributions from heat and cold and from moderate and extreme temperatures.

Methods

We collected data for 384 locations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, and USA. We fitted a standard time-series Poisson model for each location, controlling for trends and day of the week. We estimated temperature-mortality associations with a distributed lag

SUBMITTER: Gasparrini A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4521077 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature