Mortality Risk Related to Heatwaves in Dezful City, Southwest of Iran.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We aimed to evaluate the impact of heatwaves on daily deaths due to non-accidental, cardiovascular and respiratory causes in the city of Dezful in Iran from 2013 to 2019.

Method

We collected daily ambient temperature and mortality and defined 2 types of heatwaves by combining daily temperature ⩾90th in each month of the study period or since 30 years with duration ⩾2 and 3 days. We used a distributed lag non-linear model to study the association between each type of heatwave definition, and deaths due to non-accidental, cardiovascular and respiratory causes with lags up to 13 days.

Results

There was no discernible correlation in this area, despite the fact that heatwaves raised the risk of death from cardiovascular causes and lowered the risk from respirato

SUBMITTER: Aghababaeian H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9903032 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature