Influence of the Scandinavian climate pattern on the UK asthma mortality: a time series and geospatial study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

It is well known that climate variability and trends have an impact on human morbidity and mortality, especially during the winter. However, there are only a handful of studies that have undertaken quantitative investigations into this impact. We evaluate the association between the UK winter asthma mortality data to a well-established feature of the climate system, the Scandinavian (SCA) pattern.

Methods

Time series analysis of monthly asthma mortality through the period of January 2001 to December 2015 was conducted, where the data were acquired from the UK's Office for National Statistics. The correlations between indices of important modes of climate variability impacting the UK such as the North Atlantic Oscillation as well as the SCA and the asthma mortality

SUBMITTER: Majeed H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5905728 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature