Stock volatility and hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease: results from the National Insurance Claims for Epidemiological Research (NICER) study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The association between stock volatility and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) was described during the 2008 Global Stock Market Crash; however, whether the finding in an occasional stock market crash is spurious remains unclear.

Methods

A time-series design was used to evaluate the association between short-term exposure to daily returns of two major indices and daily hospital admissions for CVD and its subtypes based on claims data from the National Insurance Claims for Epidemiological Research (NICER) study covering 174 major cities in China. The average percentage change in daily hospital admissions for cause-specific CVD per 1% change in daily index returns was calculated because the Chinese stock market policy limits its change by 10% of the previous day's closi

SUBMITTER: Li W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9985007 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature