Heat-Related Fatalities in North Carolina

Underrecording of child abuse and neglect fatalities in North Carolina.

Heat-related fatalities in Wisconsin during the summer of 2012.

BACKGROUND The hottest year on record for the contiguous United States was 2012. July 2012 ranked as Wisconsin's fourth warmest July, which has profound implications for heat-related mortality. METHODS We conducted a case series of 27 heat-related fatalities in Wisconsin during summer 2012. Data from death certificates supplemented by coroner reports were analyzed to characterize factors that...

Relationships between maximum temperature and heat-related illness across North Carolina, USA.

Heat kills more people than any other weather-related event in the USA, resulting in hundreds of fatalities each year. In North Carolina, heat-related illness accounts for over 2,000 yearly emergency department admissions. In this study, data on emergency department (ED) visits for heat-related illness (HRI) were obtained from the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collecti...

Socioecologic stress and hypertension related mortality rates in North Carolina.

Prior research' 2 has shown that black Americans tend to have higher mean blood pressure levels than their white compatriots and that the death rate due to hypertension and related disorders (e.g., hypertensive heart disease and strokes) is considerably higher among blacks than whites. The reasons for these differences are not fully understood, although most researchers attribute them to a comb...

Sterilization in North Carolina