Timing and Predictors of Mild and Severe Heat Illness among New Military Enlistees.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Heat illnesses are important and potentially fatal conditions among physically active individuals. We determined predictors of heat illness among enlistees in a large military population experiencing common physical activity patterns.

Methods

We estimated the adjusted odds of mild (MHI) and severe (SHI) heat illness associated with demographic, health-related, and geographic factors among active-duty, US Army soldiers enlisting between January 2011 and December 2014 (N = 238,168) using discrete-time multivariable logistic regression analyses.

Results

We observed 2612 incident cases of MHI and 732 incident cases of SHI during 427,922 person-years of follow-up, with a mean and median of 21.6 and 21 months per subject. During the first 6 duty months, 71.3% of the

SUBMITTER: Nelson DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6045456 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature