Association between ambient temperature and mortality risk and burden: time series study in 272 main Chinese cities.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the association between temperature and cause specific mortality, and to quantify the corresponding disease burden attributable to non-optimum ambient temperatures.

Design

Time series analysis.

Setting

272 main cities in China.

Population

Non-accidental deaths in 272 cities covered by the Disease Surveillance Point System of China, from January 2013 to December 2015.

Main outcomes and measures

Daily numbers of deaths from all non-accidental causes and main cardiorespiratory diseases. Potential effect modifiers included demographic, climatic, geographical, and socioeconomic characteristics. The analysis used distributed lag non-linear models to estimate city specific associations, and multivariate meta-regression analysis to obtain t

SUBMITTER: Chen R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6207921 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature