Open AccessExtreme Temperatures and Mortality: Assessing Effect Modification by Personal Characteristics and Specific Cause of Death in a Multi-City Case-Only Analysis
Author(s) -
Mercedes Medina-Ramón,
Antonella Zanobetti,
D P. Cavanagh,
Joel Schwartz
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.9074
Subject(s) - medicine , percentile , confidence interval , odds ratio , demography , effect modification , extreme heat , logistic regression , statistics , ecology , mathematics , climate change , sociology , biology
Extremes of temperature are associated with short-term increases in daily mortality.
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