The short-term influence of weather on daily mortality in congestive heart failure

Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 169-176

  Kolb, Stefanie ^a   Radon, Katja ^a   Valois, Marie France ^b   Héguy, Léa ^b   Goldberg, Mark S ^b  

^a Institute for Occupational and Environmental Medicine   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Barometric pressure; Case crossover study; Congestive heart failure; Mortality; Relative humidity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLD CLIMATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VAPOR PRESSURE; WEATHER;

EID: 43249104529     PISSN: 19338244     EISSN: 21544700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/AEOH.62.4.169-176     Document Type: Article

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