Humidity May Modify the Relationship between Temperature and Cardiovascular Mortality in Zhejiang Province, China.

ABSTRACT: Background: The evidence of increased mortality attributable to extreme temperatures is widely characterized in climate-health studies. However, few of these studies have examined the role of humidity on temperature-mortality association. We investigated the joint effect between temperature and humidity on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in Zhejiang Province, China. Methods: We collected data on daily meteorological and CVD mortality from 11 cities in Zhejiang Province during 2010-2013. We first applied time-series Poisson regression analysis within the framework of distributed lag non-linear models to estimate the city-specific effect of temperature and humidity on CVD mortality, after controlling for temporal trends and potential confounding variables. We then applied a multivaria

SUBMITTER: Zeng J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5708022 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature