Short-term effects of air temperature on mortality and effect modification by air pollution in three cities of Bavaria, Germany: A time-series analysis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 485-486, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 49-61

  Breitner, Susanne ^a   Wolf, Kathrin ^a   Devlin, Robert B ^b   Diaz Sanchez, David ^b   Peters, Annette ^a   Schneider, Alexandra ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age groups; Air pollution; Air temperature; Cause specific mortality; Effect modification

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

AGE GROUPS; AIR POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; AIR TEMPERATURE; CAUSE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY; EFFECT MODIFICATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS; POLLUTION CONCENTRATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MORTALITY; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR SAMPLING; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT MODIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MALE; MORTALITY; OZONE LAYER; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

AUGSBURG; BAVARIA; GERMANY; MUNICH; NUREMBERG;

AGE GROUPS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; CAUSE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY; EFFECT MODIFICATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 84897413126     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.03.048     Document Type: Article

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