Both low and high temperature may increase the risk of stroke mortality

Neurology

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1064-1070

  Chen, Renjie ^a,b   Wang, Cuicui ^a,b   Meng, Xia ^a,b   Chen, Honglei ^c   Thach, Thuan Quoc ^d   Wong, Chit Ming ^d   Kan, Haidong ^a,b  

^a Key Lab of Public Health Safety of the Ministry of Education   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINA; COLD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEAT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHINA; COLD TEMPERATURE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; SEASONS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84884511798     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182a4a43c     Document Type: Article

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