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The effect of the change in air temperature on the number of newborns in Vienna 1984–99
Author(s) -
Waldhoer Thomas,
Klein Matthias,
Haidinger Gerald
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
paediatric and perinatal epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.667
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1365-3016
pISSN - 0269-5022
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-3016.2002.00410.x
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , air temperature , pediatrics , atmospheric sciences , sociology , geology
Summary The number of daily births depends on a wide range of sociodemographic, temporal as well as many other mostly unknown factors, resulting in non‐random patterns. We tested the hypothesis of the influence of the change in air temperature on the daily number of all newborns in Vienna ( n = 254 797) in the period 1984–99 ( n = 5843 days). We found a significant association of sudden changes in temperature with the daily number of births. The observed effect is responsible for up to 0.27% of the explained variation in the regression model.