TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - The mortality effect of apparent temperature: a multi-city study in Asia
JO  - International journal of environmental research and public health
A1  - Cao, Ru
A1  - Wang, Yuxin
A1  - Huang, Jing
A1  - He, Jie
A1  - Ponsawansong, Pitakchon
A1  - Jin, Jianbo
A1  - Xu, Zhihu
A1  - Yang, Teng
A1  - Pan, Xiaochuan
A1  - Prapamontol, Tippawan
A1  - Li, Guoxing
SP  - e4675
EP  - e4675
VL  - 18
IS  - 9
N2  - (1) Background: The health effect of temperature has become a rising public health topic. The objective of this study is to assess the association between apparent temperature and non-accidental deaths, and the mortality burden attributed to cold and heat temperature; (2) Methods: The daily data on temperature and deaths were collected from 10 cities in Thailand, Korea and China. We fitted a time-series regression with a distributed lag nonlinear model (DLNM) to derive the health risk of temperature for each city and then pooled them to get the overall cumulative risk by multivariate meta-analysis. Additionally, we calculated the attributable fraction of deaths for heat and cold, which was defined as temperatures above and below minimum-mortality temperature (MMT); (3) Results: There are regional heterogeneities in the minimum mortality percentiles (MMP) and attributable fractions for different countries. The MMP varied from about the 5-10th percentile in Thailand to 63-93rd percentile in China and Korea. The attributable fractions of the total deaths due to short-term exposure to temperature in Asia is 7.62%, of which the cold effect (6.44%) is much higher than the heat effect (1.18%); (4) Conclusions: Our study suggested that apparent temperature was associated with an increase in non-accidental mortality. Most of the temperature-related mortality burden was attributable to cold, except for Thailand.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1661-7827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094675
ID  - ref1
ER  -