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Increased mortality associated with extreme-heat exposure in King County, Washington, 1980–2010

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Biometeorology, May 2015
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Title
Increased mortality associated with extreme-heat exposure in King County, Washington, 1980–2010
Published in
International Journal of Biometeorology, May 2015
DOI 10.1007/s00484-015-1007-9
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Authors

Tania Busch Isaksen, Richard A. Fenske, Elizabeth K. Hom, You Ren, Hilary Lyons, Michael G. Yost

Abstract

Extreme heat has been associated with increased mortality, particularly in temperate climates. Few epidemiologic studies have considered the Pacific Northwest region in their analyses. This study quantified the historical (May to September, 1980-2010) heat-mortality relationship in the most populous Pacific Northwest County, King County, Washington. A relative risk (RR) analysis was used to explore the relationship between heat and all-cause mortality on 99th percentile heat days, while a time series analysis, using a piece-wise linear model fit, was used to estimate the effect of heat intensity on mortality, adjusted for temporal trends. For all ages, all causes, we found a 10 % (1.10 (95 % confidence interval (CI), 1.06, 1.14)) increase in the risk of death on a heat day versus non-heat day. When considering the intensity effect of heat on all-cause mortality, we found a 1.69 % (95 % CI, 0.69, 2.70) increase in the risk of death per unit of humidex above 36.0 °C. Mortality stratified by cause and age produced statistically significant results using both types of analyses for: all-cause, non-traumatic, circulatory, cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and diabetes causes of death. All-cause mortality was statistically significantly modified by the type of synoptic weather type. These results demonstrate that heat, expressed as humidex, is associated with increased mortality on heat days, and that risk increases with heat's intensity. While age was the only individual-level characteristic found to modify mortality risks, statistically significant increases in diabetes-related mortality for the 45-64 age group suggests that underlying health status may contribute to these risks.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 103 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 17%
Researcher 15 15%
Student > Master 14 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Other 5 5%
Other 15 15%
Unknown 30 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 20 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 8%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 8 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 6%
Engineering 5 5%
Other 18 17%
Unknown 38 37%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 July 2020.
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