High temperatures and cause-specific mortality

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-4

  Ebi, Kristie L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STROKE;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84355162901     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100259     Document Type: Note

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