The Impacts of Heatwaves on Mortality Differ with Different Study Periods: A Multi-City Time Series Investigation.

Different locations and study periods were used in the assessment of the relationships between heatwaves and mortality. However, little is known about the comparability and consistency of the previous effect estimates in the literature. This study assessed the heatwave-mortality relationship using d...

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Main Authors: Xiao Yu Wang, Yuming Guo, Gerry FitzGerald, Peter Aitken, Vivienne Tippett, Dong Chen, Xiaoming Wang, Shilu Tong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4517756?pdf=render