Living in areas with different levels of earthquake damage and association with risk of cardiovascular disease: a cohort-linkage study

Background: Cardiovascular disease rates are known to increase immediately after a severe earthquake. However, less is known about the magnitude of this increase over time in relation to the amount of housing damage. We assessed the effect of area housing damage from a major earthquake sequence in C...

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Main Authors: Dr Andrea M Teng, MPH, Tony Blakely, PhD, Vivienne Ivory, PhD, Simon Kingham, PhD, Vicky Cameron, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-09-01
Series:The Lancet Planetary Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519617301018