Burden of non-accidental mortality attributable to ambient temperatures: a time series study in a high plateau area of southwest China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the total non-accidental mortality burden attributable to ambient temperatures and assess the effect modification of the burden by specific causes of death and individual characteristics in a high plateau area in southwest China.

Methods

Using daily mortality and meteorological data from 2009 to 2016, we applied a quasi-Poisson model combined with a distributed lag non-linear model to estimate the temperature-mortality association with the assessment of attributable fraction and number. We calculated attributable fractions and deaths with 95% empirical CIs (eCIs), that were due to cold and heat, defined as temperatures below and above the median temperature, and for mild and extreme temperatures, defined by cut-offs at the 2.5th and 97.5th temperature pe

SUBMITTER: Deng C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398624 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature