Extremely cold and hot temperatures increase the risk of ischaemic heart disease mortality: Epidemiological evidence from China

Heart

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 195-203

  Guo, Yuming ^a,b   Li, Shanshan ^b   Zhang, Yanshen ^c   Armstrong, Ben ^d   Jaakkola, Jouni J K ^e   Tong, Shilu ^f   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING   (China)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^f QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TEMPERATURE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84871798806     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302518     Document Type: Article

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