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Short-term effect of extreme air temperature on hospital emergency room visits for cardiovascular diseases from 2009 to 2012 in Beijing, China

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Extreme air temperature directly affected human health. However, the short-term effect of extreme air temperature on the incidence of cardiovascular diseases has rarely been reported in China. In this study, we focused on Beijing, China, and assessed the effects of cold/warm days and nights on the number of hospital emergency room (ER) visits for cardiovascular diseases from 2009 to 2012. We used a generalized additive model (GAM) to estimate the association between extreme air temperature and the number of hospital ER visits for cardiovascular diseases. We divided the entire study group into two gender subgroups and three age subgroups. The results showed that the short-term effect of extreme air temperature on hospital ER visits for cardiovascular diseases was more profound in females and the elderly (aged ≥ 75 years). Among all the study subgroups, the highest relative risk (RR) of cardiovascular diseases associated with extremely cold days, warm days, cold nights, and warm nights was 3.0% (95% CI, 1.6%–4.4%), 0.8% (95% CI, − 0.9%–2.6%), 2.8% (95% CI, 1.6%–4.2%), and 1.8% (95% CI, 0.6%–4.3%), respectively. Overall, the effect of extremely low air temperature (during both days and nights) on the incidence of cardiovascular diseases was stronger and more acute than that of extremely high air temperature.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41975141 and 41961028).

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    Yuxia Ma, Haoran Jiao, Yifan Zhang, Fengliu Feng, Bowen Cheng, Bingji Ma & Zhiang Yu

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Ma, Y., Jiao, H., Zhang, Y. et al. Short-term effect of extreme air temperature on hospital emergency room visits for cardiovascular diseases from 2009 to 2012 in Beijing, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 38029–38037 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09814-w

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