Association of Tropical Cyclones With County-Level Mortality in the US.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Tropical cyclones have a devastating effect on society, but a comprehensive assessment of their association with cause-specific mortality over multiple years of study is lacking.

Objective

To comprehensively evaluate the association of county-level tropical cyclone exposure and death rates from various causes in the US.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective observational study using a Bayesian conditional quasi-Poisson model to examine how tropical cyclones were associated with monthly death rates. Data from 33.6 million deaths in the US were collected from the National Center for Health Statistics over 31 years (1988-2018), including residents of the 1206 counties in the US that experienced at least 1 tropical cyclone during the study period.

SUBMITTER: Parks RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8905400 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature