Predictive value of three thermal comfort indices in low temperatures on cardiovascular morbidity in the Iberian peninsula.
Air temperature
Apparent temperature
Circulatory system diseases
Net effective temperature
Universal thermal climate index
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 Aug 2020
10 Aug 2020
Historique:
received:
01
11
2019
revised:
22
04
2020
accepted:
22
04
2020
pubmed:
7
5
2020
medline:
5
6
2020
entrez:
7
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The natural environment has been considered an important determinant of cardiovascular morbidity. This work seeks to assess the impact of the winter thermal environment on hospital admissions from diseases of the circulatory system by using three biometeorological indices in five regions of the Iberian Peninsula. A theoretical index based on a thermophysiological model (Universal Thermal Climate Index [UTCI]) and two experimental biometeorological ones (Net Effective Temperature [NET] and Apparent Temperature [AT]) were estimated in two metropolitan areas of Portugal (Porto and Lisbon) and in three provinces of Spain (Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia). Subsequently, their relationship with hospital admissions, adjusted by NO
Identifiants
pubmed: 32375071
pii: S0048-9697(20)32486-4
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138969
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
138969Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.