Models for the relationship between ambient temperature and daily mortality

Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 624-631

  Armstrong, Ben ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

HUMANS; LONDON; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33750473021     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000239732.50999.8f     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Basu R, Samet JM. Relation between elevated ambient temperature and mortality: a review of the epidemiologic evidence. Epidemiol Rev. 2002;24:190-202.
2. The Eurowinter G. Cold exposure and winter mortality from ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, respiratory disease, and all causes in warm and cold regions of Europe. Lancet. 1997;349:1341-1346.
3. Dominici F. Time-series analysis of air pollution and mortality: a statistical review. Res Rep Health Eff Inst. 2004;123:3-27; discussion 29-33.
4. Alberdi JC, Diaz J, Montero JC, et al. Daily mortality in Madrid community 1986-1992: relationship with meteorological variables. Eur J Epidemiol. 1998;14:571-578.
5. Ballester F, Corella D, Perez-Hoyos S, et al. Mortality as a function of temperature. A study in Valencia, Spain, 1991-1993. Int J Epidemiol. 1997;26:551-561.
6. Basu R, Dominici F, Samet JM. Temperature and mortality among the elderly in the United States: a comparison of epidemiologic methods. Epidemiology. 2005;16:58-66.
7. Braga AL, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J. The time course of weather-related deaths. Epidemiology. 2001;12:662-667.
8. Braga AL, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J. The lag structure between particulate air pollution and respiratory and cardiovascular deaths in 10 US cities. J Occup Environ Med. 2001;43:927-933.
9. Braga AL, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J. The effect of weather on respiratory and cardiovascular deaths in 12 US cities. Environ Health Perspect. 2002;110:859-863.
10. Carder M, McNamee R, Beverland I, et al. The lagged effect of cold temperature and wind chill on cardiorespiratory mortality in Scotland. Occup Environ Med. 2005;62:702-710.
11. Curriero FC, Heiner KS, Samet J, et al. Temperature and mortality in eleven cities of the eastern United States. Am J Epidemiol. 2002;155:80-87.
12. Hajat S, Armstrong BG, Gouveia N, et al. Mortality displacement of heat-related deaths: a comparison of Delhi, São Paulo, and London. Epidemiology. 2005;16:613-620.
13. Keatinge WR, Donaldson GC. Mortality related to cold and air pollution in London after allowance for effects of associated weather patterns. Environ Res. 2001;86:209-216.
14. Pattenden S, Nikiforov B, Armstrong BG. Mortality and temperature in Sofia and London. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2003;57:628-633.
15. Schwartz J, Samet JM, Patz JA. Hospital admissions for heart disease: the effects of temperature and humidity. Epidemiology. 2004;15:755-761.
16. Welty LJ, Zeger SL. Are the acute effects of particulate matter on mortality in the National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study the result of inadequate control for weather and season? A sensitivity analysis using flexible distributed lag models. Am J Epidemiol. 2005;162:80-88.
17. Kunst AE, Looman CW, Mackenbach JP. Outdoor air temperature and mortality in The Netherlands: a time-series analysis. Am J Epidemiol. 1993;137:331-341.
18. Muggeo VM. Estimating regression models with unknown break-points. Stat Med. 2003;22:3055-3071.
19. Schwartz J. The distributed lag between air pollution and daily deaths. Epidemiology. 2000;11:320-326.
20. Zanobetti A, Wand MP, Schwartz J, et al. Generalized additive distributed lag models: quantifying mortality displacement. Biostatistics. 2000;1:279-292.
21. Bruzzi P, Green SB, Byar DP, et al. Estimating the population attributable risk for multiple risk factors using case-control data. Am J Epidemiol. 1985;122:904-914.
22. Peng R, Dominici F, Louis T. Model choice in multi-city time series studies of air pollution and mortality. J Royal Stat Soc. In press.