Comprehensive approach to understand the association between diurnal temperature range and mortality in East Asia

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 539, Issue , 2016, Pages 313-321

  Kim, Jayeun ^a   Shin, Jihye ^a   Lim, Youn Hee ^b   Honda, Yasushi ^c   Hashizume, Masahiro ^d   Guo, Yue Leon ^e   Kan, Haidong ^f   Yi, Seungmuk ^a   Kim, Ho ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climatic determinant; Diurnal temperature range; Lag effect; Mortality; Temperature variation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATIC DETERMINANT; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; LAG EFFECTS; MORTALITY; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

HEALTH RISKS;

AGING POPULATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; HEALTH IMPACT; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TEMPERATURE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHINA; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; JAPAN; KOREA; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TAIWAN; CITY; FAR EAST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS;

CHINA; HEBEI; INCHEON [INCHEON (ADS)]; INCHEON [SOUTH KOREA]; JAPAN; SOUTH KOREA; TAIWAN; TANGSHAN; TIANJIN;

CITIES; FAR EAST; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84941309157     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.134     Document Type: Article

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