The effect of high temperatures on cause-specific mortality in England and Wales

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 56-61

  Gasparrini, Antonio ^a   Armstrong, Ben ^a   Kovats, Sari ^a   Wilkinson, Paul ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; GEOGRAPHY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEAT INTOLERANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISCHEMIA; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHOOL CHILD; STROKE; SUMMER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; WALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84355161837     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.059782     Document Type: Article

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