Heat, heat waves, and hospital admissions among the elderly in the United States, 1992–2006

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1187-1192

  Gronlund, Carina J ^a   Zanobetti, Antonella ^b   Schwartz, Joel D ^b   Wellenius, Gregory A ^c   O’Neill, Marie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; COLD CLIMATE; DAILY MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGE; HEAT; HEAT WAVE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MEDICARE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; KIDNEY DISEASES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EXTREME HEAT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; KIDNEY DISEASES; OZONE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84920007881     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1206132     Document Type: Article

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