Impact of diurnal temperature range on mortality in a high plateau area in southwest China: A time series analysis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 526, Issue , 2015, Pages 358-365

  Ding, Zan ^a   Guo, Pi ^b   Xie, Fang ^c   Chu, Huifang ^d   Li, Kun ^c   Pu, Jingbo ^d   Pang, Shaojie ^a   Dong, Hongli ^a   Liu, Yahui ^a   Pi, Fuhua ^a   Zhang, Qingying ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Yuxi City Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d Tonghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Distributed lag non linear model; Diurnal temperature range; High plateau; Mortality; Time series

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HUMIDITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES; WIND;

CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HIGH PLATEAU; INTERVENTION STRATEGY; MORTALITY; NON-LINEAR MODEL;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DIURNAL VARIATION; HEALTH IMPACT; MORTALITY; PLATEAU; PUBLIC HEALTH; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUNLIGHT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND POWER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEAT INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TEMPERATURE; VERY ELDERLY;

CHINA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84930181835     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.05.012     Document Type: Article

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