Winter circulation weather types and hospital admissions for cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive diseases in Salamanca, Spain

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1692-1703

  de Pablo, Fernando ^a   Tomás, Clemente ^a   Soriano, Luis Rivas ^a   Diego, Luisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b Regional Institute of Health   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Respiratory and digestive hospital admission; Time lag; Weather type

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIR MASS CLASSIFICATION; AVERAGE NUMBERS; CARDIOVASCULAR; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GROUND-LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; RESPIRATORY AND DIGESTIVE HOSPITAL ADMISSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME LAG; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WEATHER TYPE; WINTER CIRCULATION;

METEOROLOGY;

HOSPITALS;

AIR MASS; ANTICYCLONE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CYCLONE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; WINTER;

CASTILLA Y LEON; EURASIA; EUROPE; SALAMANCA [CASTILLA Y LEON]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 70349197699     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1802     Document Type: Article

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