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Weather conditions and their effect on the increase of the risk of type A acute aortic dissection onset in Berlin

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In this study, a minimum distance classification and forward feature selection technique are joined to determine the relationship between weather conditions and the increase of the risk of type A acute aortic dissection (AAD) events in Berlin. The results demonstrate that changes in the amount of cloudiness and air temperature are the most representative weather predictors among the studied parameters. A discrimination surface was developed for the prediction of AAD events 6 h ahead, and it is found that, under a specific amount of cloudiness and air temperature, the risk of AAD events in Berlin increases about 20 %.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin for the type A acute aortic dissection data and Chris Engert for his valuable proofreading of this short communication. The authors also wish to express their warm thanks to the University Management of Freie Universität Berlin for its support in this study.

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  1. Institut für Meteorologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, 12165, Berlin, Germany

    Hamid Taheri Shahraiyni, Sahar Sodoudi & Ulrich Cubasch

  2. Remote Sensing Research Center, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Hamid Taheri Shahraiyni

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Taheri Shahraiyni, H., Sodoudi, S. & Cubasch, U. Weather conditions and their effect on the increase of the risk of type A acute aortic dissection onset in Berlin. Int J Biometeorol 60, 1303–1305 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-015-1099-2

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