Impacts of hot and cold spells differ for acute and chronic ischaemic heart diseases

0428923 - GFÚ 2015 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Davídkovová, Hana - Plavcová, E. - Kynčl, J. - Kyselý, J.
Impacts of hot and cold spells differ for acute and chronic ischaemic heart diseases.
BMC Public Health. Roč. 14, May (2014), 480/1-480/11. E-ISSN 1471-2458
Institutional support: RVO:67985530 ; RVO:68378289
Keywords : epidemiology * cardiovascular diseases * mortality * environment * climate
Subject RIV: DG - Athmosphere Sciences, Meteorology
Impact factor: 2.264, year: 2014
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Many studies have reported associations between temperature extremes and cardiovascular mortality but little has been understood about differences in the effects on acute and chronic diseases. The present study examines hot and cold spell effects on ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality in the Czech Republic during 1994-2009, with emphasis upon differences in the effects on acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and chronic IHD. We use analogous definitions for hot and cold spells based on quantiles of daily average temperature anomalies, thus allowing for comparison of results for summer hot spells and winter cold spells. Daily mortality data were standardised to account for the long-term trend and the seasonal and weekly cycles. Periods when the data were affected by epidemics of influenza and other acute respiratory infections were removed from the analysis.
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