Medical diagnoses of heat wave-related hospital admissions in older adults.

ABSTRACT: Heat waves have been associated with adverse human health effects, including higher rates of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, and these health effects may be exacerbated under continued climate change. However, specific causes of hospitalizations associated with heat waves have not been characterized on a national scale. We systematically estimated the risks of cause-specific hospitalizations during heat waves in a national cohort of 23.7 million Medicare enrollees residing in 1943 U.S. counties during 1999-2010. Heat waves were defined as ≥2 consecutive days exceeding the county's 99th percentile of daily temperatures, and were matched to non-heat wave periods by county and week. We considered 50 outcomes from broad disease groups previously associated with heat wave-related hospit

SUBMITTER: Hopp S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6040588 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature