Impact of Heat Waves Over Daily Mortality According to Different Groups of Age

Linares, Cristina; Díaz, José Joaquín

doi:10.1097/00001648-200611001-01136

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“…We obtained reliable AF heat estimations only for two parameters out of 20, namely IHD and CSD in men older than 65; it proves that elderly people are too sensitive to negative impacts exerted by heat as it was also confirmed in some previous research [3,17,18].…”

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Universal thermal climate index (UTCI) applied to determine thresholds for temperature-related mortality

Shartova¹,

Shaposhnikov²,

Konstantinov³

et al. 2019

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Our research goal was to examine a response in mortality among population in Arkhangelsk caused by exposure to high and low temperatures. We determined the best available mortality predictor out of air temperature and Universal Thermal Climate Index that characterizes how people feel temperature and detected threshold temperatures depending on sex, age, and cause of death; under exposure to such temperatures there was a statistically authentic increase in mortality. We analyzed data on daily mortality among population and meteorological data collected in 1999-2016. Relative preciseness in calculating attributive fractions of additional mortality during all hot and cold days was taken as a numeric criterion for selecting the best predictor. All the calculations were accomplished basing on Poisson's regression model taking into account a non-linear dependence between mortality and weather with a distributed lag up to 21 days long. Although people in Arkhangelsk live in a climate with cold summer and moderately cold winter, we determined attributive fractions of mortality both for cold and heat. In summer high temperatures at night have greater effects on mortality than average daily ones. Differences in temperature-related mortality depend not only on age (people who are older than 65 are more vulnerable in this respect) but also on sex. We detected lower threshold heat temperatures for males as well as greater increase in mortality among them caused by exposure to cold. It is advisable to use different predictors to obtain the maximum precise characteristics for heat and cold stress. We recommend applying UTCI to determine threshold temperatures and additional mortality.

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Universal thermal climate index (UTCI) applied to determine thresholds for temperature-related mortality

Shartova¹,

Shaposhnikov²,

Konstantinov³

et al. 2019

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“…Empirical evidence from Madrid would support this assumption 28. Anyway, as the threshold for the 75+ years age class is likely lower than the common threshold (reflecting the higher susceptibility of older people) and as the total number of attributable deaths is strongly influenced by those in the 75+ years age class, our estimates of all-age heat-mortality impact are probably conservative.…”

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Impact of heat on mortality in 15 European cities: attributable deaths under different weather scenarios

Baccini

Kosatsky²,

Analitis³

et al. 2009

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

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“…It could be argued that due to the occupants' age, the case studies' thermal comfort should be evaluated according to more restrictive boundaries (category I), recommended for spaces occupied by very sensitive and fragile people, with a high level of expectation, including disabled, sick, elderly people, and very young children [29]. This would constitute grounds for a deeper discussion on which category would best fit the thermal comfort evaluation of not only these case studies, but vernacular dwellings overall, given the dichotomy between the sanitary criteria based on risk assessment for vulnerable population groups to extreme temperatures [58] and the actual moderate thermal expectation shaped by their socioeconomic background.…”

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Understanding thermal comfort in vernacular dwellings in Alentejo, Portugal: A mixed-methods adaptive comfort approach

Costa-Carrapiço

González

Raslan

et al. 2022

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Impact of Heat Waves Over Daily Mortality According to Different Groups of Age

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Universal thermal climate index (UTCI) applied to determine thresholds for temperature-related mortality

Universal thermal climate index (UTCI) applied to determine thresholds for temperature-related mortality

Impact of heat on mortality in 15 European cities: attributable deaths under different weather scenarios

Understanding thermal comfort in vernacular dwellings in Alentejo, Portugal: A mixed-methods adaptive comfort approach

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