Emergency Cardiovascular Hospitalization Risk Attributable to Cold Temperatures in Hong Kong
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Emergency Cardiovascular Hospitalization Risk Attributable to Cold Temperatures in Hong Kong.
BACKGROUND Associations between ambient temperature and cardiovascular morbidity have been well studied worldwide; however, few studies determined the cardiovascular disease burden attributable to temperature. We aimed to assess the risk attributed to temperature based on the exposure-lag-response relationship between temperature and circulatory diseases. METHODS AND RESULTS We collected dail...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1941-7713,1941-7705
DOI: 10.1161/circoutcomes.115.002410