Susceptibility to heat wave-related mortality: a follow-up study of a cohort of elderly in Rome
Open Access
- 12 November 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Environmental Health
- Vol. 8 (1), 50
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-069x-8-50
Abstract
Few studies have identified specific factors that increase mortality during heat waves. This study investigated socio-demographic characteristics and pre-existing medical conditions as effect modifiers of the risk of dying during heat waves in a cohort of elderly residents in Rome.Keywords
This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
- Vulnerability to heat-related mortality in Latin America: a case-crossover study in São Paulo, Brazil, Santiago, Chile and Mexico City, MexicoInternational Journal of Epidemiology, 2008
- Factors affecting in-hospital heat-related mortality: a multi-city case-crossover analysisJournal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2008
- An ecological time-series study of heat-related mortality in three European citiesEnvironmental Health, 2008
- Has the impact of heat waves on mortality changed in France since the European heat wave of summer 2003? A study of the 2006 heat waveInternational Journal of Epidemiology, 2008
- Temperature, temperature extremes, and mortality: a study of acclimatisation and effect modification in 50 US citiesOccupational and Environmental Medicine, 2007
- Heat wave impacts on mortality in Shanghai, 1998 and 2003International Journal of Biometeorology, 2006
- August 2003 Heat Wave in France: Risk Factors for Death of Elderly People Living at HomeEuropean Journal of Public Health, 2006
- Mild dehydration: a risk factor of broncho-pulmonary disorders?European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2003
- Excess hospital admissions during the July 1995 heat wave in ChicagoAmerican Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1999
- An Evaluation of Summer Discomfort in the United State Using a Relative Climatological IndexBulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 1986