Extreme temperature and out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest. Nationwide study in a hot climate country.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Out-of-hospital-cardiac arrest (OHCA) is frequently linked to environmental exposures. Climate change and global warming phenomenon have been found related to cardiovascular morbidity, however there is no agreement on their impact on OHCA occurrence. In this nationwide analysis, we aimed to assess the incidence of the OHCA events attended by emergency medical services (EMS), in relation to meteorological conditions: temperature, humidity, heat index and solar radiation.

Methods

We analyzed all adult cases of OHCA in Israel attended by EMS during 2016-2017. In the case-crossover design, we compared ambient exposure within 72 h prior to the OHCA event with exposure prior to the four control times using conditional logistic regression in a lag-distributed non-linear

SUBMITTER: Kranc H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8022396 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature