Influenza-associated mortality in Yancheng, China, 2011-15.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:The Yangtze river delta in eastern China, centered on Shanghai, is one of the most populated regions of the world with more than 100 million residents. We examined the impact of influenza on excess mortality in Yancheng, a prefecture-level city with 8.2 million population located 250 km north of Shanghai, during 2011-2015. METHODS:We obtained individual data on deaths by date, age, sex, and cause in Yancheng from the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and used these to derive weekly rates of mortality from respiratory causes, respiratory and cardiovascular causes combined, and all causes. We used data on influenza-like illnesses and laboratory detections of influenza to construct a proxy measure of the weekly incidence of influenza virus infections in the comm

SUBMITTER: Zhang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5818359 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature