Heat-related mortality in residents of nursing homes
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Heat-related mortality in residents of nursing homes.
BACKGROUND in population-based studies, age and morbidity were associated with heat-related mortality. The nursing home population reveals both factors and may represent a highly vulnerable subgroup. Therefore, temperature-mortality relationship was examined in residents of nursing homes. METHODS the association between daily ambient maximum temperature and mortality was analysed in 95,808 nu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afp248