Daily mean temperature and clinical kidney stone presentation in five u.s. metropolitan areas: A time-series analysis

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1081-1087

  Tasian, Gregory E ^a,b   Pulido, Jose E ^b   Gasparrini, Antonio ^c   Saigal, Christopher S ^d,e   Horton, Benjamin P ^f,g   Richard Landis, J ^b   Madison, Rodger ^e   Keren, Ron ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; ICD-9; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; CITY; CLIMATE; FEMALE; KIDNEY CALCULI; MALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

CITIES; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; MALE; RISK FACTORS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907605548     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307703     Document Type: Article

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