Association between extreme heat and hospital admissions for cataract patients in Hefei, China.

ABSTRACT: Cataract is the first cause of blindness and the major cause of visual impairment worldwide. Under conditions of global warming, researchers have begun to give attention to the influence of increasing temperature on cataract patients. Our paper aimed to investigate the association between extreme heat and hospital admissions for cataract in Hefei, China. Based on data from the New Rural Cooperative Medical System and National Meteorological Information Center, we used a generalized additive model and a distributed lag nonlinear model to examine the relationship between extreme heat and hospitalizations for cataract, with consideration of cumulative and lagged effects. When current mean temperature was above 28 °C, each 1 °C rise was associated with a 4% decrease in the number of cataract a

SUBMITTER: Xie J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7686207 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature