Citation

Zhang Y, Wang SG, Zhang XL, Cheng YF, Tang CJ. Biomed. Environ. Sci. 2019; 32(1): 42-46.

Affiliation

Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Publisher Academic Press)

DOI

10.3967/bes2019.006

PMID

30696539

Abstract

We examined the attributed fractions of all-cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality that were attributed to extreme and moderate cold and heat during 2010-2016 in Nanjing. Our results showed that 12.81%, 19.78%, and 25.33% of all-cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortalities, respectively, were attributed to temperature. The highest attributed fractions for three types of mortality were at 4 ℃ and the attributed fractions were high around 4 ℃, which falls within the moderate cold temperatures. Although moderate cold has lower RR than extreme cold, it occurred on more days than did extreme cold. Therefore, health burden caused by moderate cold requires further attention in the future.

Copyright © 2019 The Editorial Board of Biomedical and Environmental Sciences. Published by China CDC. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

Attributed fractions; Moderate cold; Mortality; Temperature