Assessing heat effects on respiratory mortality and location characteristics as modifiers of heat effects at a small area scale in Central-Northern Europe
Zafeiratou S, Samoli E, Analitis A, Gasparrini A, Stafoggia M, Donato F, Rao S, Zhang S, Breitner S, Masselot P, Aunan K, Schneider A, Katsouyanni K, team O. Assessing heat effects on respiratory mortality and location characteristics as modifiers of heat effects at a small area scale in Central-Northern Europe. Environmental Epidemiology 2023, 7: e269. PMID: 37840857, PMCID: PMC10569755, DOI: 10.1097/ee9.0000000000000269.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchArea-level factorsRespiratory mortalityEffect modificationArea-level characteristicsMultilevel random effects modelsRandom-effects meta-analysisTemperature-mortality associationsSex-specific modelsTime-series studyRandom-effects modelPoisson regressionSmall-area scaleCity-wide dataNational levelVulnerable subgroupsMortality countsMeta-analysisNon-urban areasMortalityDevelopment of targeted policiesWalesEnglandCentral‐northern EuropeNorwayAssociationTemporal variation in the association between temperature and cause-specific mortality in 15 German cities
Rai M, Breitner S, Huber V, Zhang S, Peters A, Schneider A. Temporal variation in the association between temperature and cause-specific mortality in 15 German cities. Environmental Research 2023, 229: 115668. PMID: 36958378, DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.115668.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCVD mortalityNon-accidentalRelative riskMortality riskAge- and sex-stratified analysesMultivariate meta-analytic modelsCause-specific mortalitySex-stratified analysesAge groupsTemperature-mortality associationsRD mortalityYounger age groupsOlder age groupsMeta-analytic modelCold-relatedStudy periodRD deathsMortalityAssociationRiskTemperature percentileHeat-related risksCVDGerman citiesTime series analysis