Mortality related to cold weather in elderly people in southeast England, 1979-94

British Medical Journal

Volumn 315, Issue 7115, 1997, Pages 1055-1056

  Donaldson, G C ^a   Keatinge, W R ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Physiology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COLD EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0030703181     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7115.1055     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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3. Donaldson GC, Keatinge WR. Early increases in ischaemic heart disease mortality dissociated from, and later changes associated with, respiratory mortality, after cold weather in south-east England. J Epidemiol Community Health (in press).