Temperature, myocardial infarction, and mortality: Effect modification by individual-and area-level characteristics

Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 439-446

  Madrigano, Jaime ^a   Mittleman, Murray A ^a,b   Baccarelli, Andrea ^a   Goldberg, Robert ^c   Melly, Steven ^a   Von Klot, Stephanie ^d,e   Schwartz, Joel ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLD TEMPERATURE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POVERTY AREAS; RISK FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84876292182     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182878397     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. st century. Science. 2004;305:994-997.
2. Zanobetti A, Schwartz J. Temperature and mortality in nine US cities. Epidemiology. 2008;19:563-570.
3. Curriero FC, Heiner KS, Samet JM, Zeger SL, Strug L, Patz JA. Temperature and mortality in 11 cities of the eastern United States. Am J Epidemiol. 2002;155:80-87.
4. Braga AL, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J. The time course of weather-related deaths. Epidemiology. 2001;12:662-667.
5. Armstrong B. Models for the relationship between ambient temperature and daily mortality. Epidemiology. 2006;17:624-631.
6. Medina-Ramón M, Zanobetti A, Cavanagh D P, Schwartz J. Extreme temperatures and mortality: assessing effect modifcation by personal characteristics and specifc cause of death in a multi-city case-only analysis. Environ Health Perspect. 2006;114:1331-1336.
7. Bhaskaran K, Hajat S, Haines A, Herrett E, Wilkinson P, Smeeth L. Effects of ambient temperature on the incidence of myocardial infarction. Heart. 2009;95:1760-1769.
8. Portier CJ, Thigpen Tart K, Carter SR, et al. A Human Health Perspective On Climate Change: A Report Outlining the Research Needs on the Human Health Effects of Climate Change. 2010.
9. Schwartz J. Who is sensitive to extremes of temperature? A case-only analysis. Epidemiology. 2005;16:67-72.
10. Goldberg RJ, Gore JM, Alpert JS, Dalen JE. Incidence and case fatality rates of acute myocardial infarction (1975-1984): the Worcester Heart Attack Study. Am Heart J. 1988;115:761-767.
11. Goldberg RJ, Yarzebski J, Lessard D, Gore JM. A two-decades (1975 to 1995) long experience in the incidence, in-hospital and long-term case-fatality rates of acute myocardial infarction: a community-wide perspective. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1999;33:1533-1539.
12. Floyd KC, Yarzebski J, Spencer FA, et al. A 30-year perspective (1975-2005) into the changing landscape of patients hospitalized with initial acute myocardial infarction: Worcester Heart Attack Study. Circ Cardio-vasc Qual Outcomes. 2009;2:88-95.
13. Kovats RS, Hajat S. Heat stress and public health: a critical review. Annu Rev Public Health. 2008;29:41-55.
14. Michelozzi P, Accetta G, De Sario M, et al; PHEWE Collaborative Group. High temperature and hospitalizations for cardiovascular and respiratory causes in 12 European cities. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009;179:383-389.
15. Krieger N, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Soobader MJ, Subramanian S V, Carson R. Geocoding and monitoring of US socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and cancer incidence: does the choice of area-based measure and geographic level matter?: the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project. Am J Epidemiol. 2002;156:471-482.
16. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Information Technology Division. Offce of Geographic Information (MassGIS). Available at: http://www. mass.gov/mgis/.
17. Bell JF, Wilson JS, Liu GC. Neighborhood greenness and 2-year changes in body mass index of children and youth. Am J Prev Med. 2008;35:547-553.
18. Bateson T F, Schwartz J. Control for seasonal variation and time trend in case-crossover studies of acute effects of environmental exposures. Epidemiology. 1999;10:539-544.
19. Lumley T, Levy D. Bias in the case-crossover design: implications for studies of air pollution. Environmetrics. 2000;11:689-704.
20. Turner LR, Barnett AG, Connell D, Tong S. Ambient temperature and cardiorespiratory morbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Epidemiology. 2012;23:594-606.
21. Danet S, Richard F, Montaye M, et al. Unhealthy effects of atmospheric temperature and pressure on the occurrence of myocardial infarction and coronary deaths. A 10-year survey: the Lille-World Health Organization MONICA project (monitoring trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease). Circulation. 1999;100:E1-E7.
22. Enquselassie F, Dobson AJ, Alexander HM, Steele PL. Seasons, temperature and coronary disease. Int J Epidemiol. 1993;22:632-636.
23. Wang H, Matsumura M, Kakehashi M, Eboshida A. Effects of atmospheric temperature and pressure on the occurrence of acute myocardial infarction in Hiroshima City, Japan. Hiroshima J Med Sci. 2006;55:45-51.
24. Bhaskaran K, Hajat S, Haines A, Herrett E, Wilkinson P, Smeeth L. Short term effects of temperature on risk of myocardial infarction in England and Wales: time series regression analysis of the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) registry. BMJ. 2010;341:c3823.
25. Wolf K, Schneider A, Breitner S, et al; Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg Study Group. Air temperature and the occurrence of myocardial infarction in Augsburg, Germany. Circulation. 2009;120:735-742.
26. McMichael AJ, Wilkinson P, Kovats RS, et al. International study of temperature, heat and urban mortality: the 'ISOTHURM' project. Int J Epidemiol. 2008;37:1121-1131.
27. Anderson BG, Bell ML. Weather-related mortality: how heat, cold, and heat waves affect mortality in the United States. Epidemiology. 2009;20:205-213.
28. Basu R. High ambient temperature and mortality: a review of epidemio-logic studies from 2001 to 2008. Environ Health. 2009;8:40.
29. Modesti PA, Morabito M, Bertolozzi I, et al. Weather-related changes in 24-hour blood pressure profle: effects of age and implications for hypertension management. Hypertension. 2006;47:155-161.
30. Wilmshurst P. Temperature and cardiovascular mortality. BMJ. 1994;309:1029-1030.
31. Halonen JI, Zanobetti A, Sparrow D, Vokonas PS, Schwartz J. Outdoor temperature is associated with serum HDL and LDL. Environ Res. 2011;111:281-287.
32. Barnett AG, Dobson AJ, McElduff P, Salomaa V, Kuulasmaa K, Sans S; WHO MONICA Project. Cold periods and coronary events: an analysis of populations worldwide. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2005;59:551-557.
33. Stafoggia M, Forastiere F, Agostini D, et al. Vulnerability to heat-related mortality: a multicity, population-based, case-crossover analysis. Epide-miology. 2006;17:315-323.
34. O'Neill MS, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J. Modifers of the temperature and mortality association in seven US cities. Am J Epidemiol. 2003;157:1074-1082.
35. Uejio CK, Wilhelmi OV, Golden JS, Mills DM, Gulino S P, Samenow J P. Intra-urban societal vulnerability to extreme heat: the role of heat exposure and the built environment, socioeconomics, and neighborhood stability. Health Place. 2011;17:498-507.
36. Medina-Ramón M, Schwartz J. Temperature, temperature extremes, and mortality: a study of acclimatisation and effect modifcation in 50 US cities. Occup Environ Med. 2007;64:827-833.
37. Hajat S, Kosatky T. Heat-related mortality: a review and exploration of heterogeneity. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010;64:753-760.
38. Behar S, Haim M, Hod H, et al. Long-term prognosis of patients after a Q wave compared with a non-Q wave frst acute myocardial infarction. Data from the SPRINT Registry. Eur Heart J. 1996;17:1532-1537.
39. Gerber Y, Jacobsen SJ, Killian JM, Weston SA, Roger VL. Seasonality and daily weather conditions in relation to myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death in Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1979 to 2002. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006;48:287-292.
40. Stafoggia M, Forastiere F, Agostini D, et al. Factors affecting in-hospital heat-related mortality: a multi-city case-crossover analysis. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2008;62:209-215.
41. Baccini M, Biggeri A, Accetta G, et al. Heat effects on mortality in 15 European cities. Epidemiology. 2008;19:711-719.
42. Von Klot S, Paciorek C, Melly S, Coull B, Dutton J, Schwartz J. Association of temperature at residence vs central site temperature with mortality in Eastern Massachusetts-a case crossover analysis. Epidemiology. 2009;20:S75.
43. O'Neill MS, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J. Disparities by race in heat-related mortality in four US cities: the role of air conditioning prevalence. J Urban Health. 2005;82:191-197.
44. Maclure M. The case-crossover design: a method for studying transient effects on the risk of acute events. Am J Epidemiol. 1991;133:144-153.
45. Suh HH, Nishioka Y, Allen GA, Koutrakis P, Burton RM. The metropolitan acid aerosol characterization study: results from the summer 1994 Washington, D.C. feld study. Environ Health Perspect. 1997;105: 826-834.