Winter air-mass-based synoptic climatological approach and hospital admissions for myocardial infarction in Florence, Italy

Environmental Research

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-60

  Morabito, Marco ^a,b   Crisci, Alfonso ^b   Grifoni, Daniele ^b   Orlandini, Simone ^a   Cecchi, Lorenzo ^a   Bacci, Laura ^b   Modesti, Pietro Amedeo ^a   Gensini, Gian Franco ^a   Maracchi, Giampiero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMETEOROLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anticyclonic; Cyclonic; Myocardial infarction; Time lag; Weather type

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMATE VARIATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WINTER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WEATHER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FIRENZE [TUSCANY]; FLORENCE [FIRENZE]; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

EID: 33746069031     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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