The effect of heat waves on hospital admissions for renal disease in a temperate city of Australia | Zendy

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The effect of heat waves on hospital admissions for renal disease in a temperate city of Australia

Author(s) -

Alana Hansen,

Peng Bi,

Philip Ryan,

Monika Nitschke,

Dino Pisaniello,

Graeme Tucker

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyn165

Subject(s) - medicine , dialysis , poisson regression , heat wave , incidence (geometry) , acute kidney injury , confidence interval , kidney disease , intensive care medicine , environmental health , population , climate change , ecology , physics , optics , biology

A rarely investigated consequence of heat exposure is renal dysfunction resulting from dehydration and hyperthermia. Our study aims to quantify the relationship between exposure to extreme high temperatures and renal morbidity in South Australia.

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