The influence of temperature on mortality and its Lag effect: a study in four Chinese cities with different latitudes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global climate change is one of the most serious environmental issues faced by humanity, and the resultant change in frequency and intensity of heat waves and cold spells could increase mortality. The influence of temperature on human health could be immediate or delayed. Latitude, relative humidity, and air pollution may influence the temperature-mortality relationship. We studied the influence of temperature on mortality and its lag effect in four Chinese cities with a range of latitudes over 2008-2011, adjusting for relative humidity and air pollution.

Methods

We recorded the city-specific distributions of temperature and mortality by month and adopted a Poisson regression model combined with a distributed lag nonlinear model to investigate the lag effect of te

SUBMITTER: Bao J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4855424 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature