Contrasting patterns of hospital admissions and mortality during heat waves: Are deaths from circulatory disease a real excess or an artifact?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1025-1028

  Mastrangelo, Giuseppe ^a   Hajat, Shakoor ^b   Fadda, Emanuela ^a   Buja, Alessandra ^a   Fedeli, Ugo ^c   Spolaore, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c SER Epidemiological Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEHYDRATION; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; HEAT; HEAT STROKE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SUMMER; THERMAL EXPOSURE; WEATHER;

ARTIFACTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEAT; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; INCIDENCE; PATIENT ADMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 32144443352     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.09.053     Document Type: Article

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