Medical diagnoses seen upon hospital admission on heat wave days among the elderly in the United States

BACKGROUND: Exposure to extreme heat and heat waves has detrimental effects on human health, and with increasing predictions of climate change and global warming, it is of the utmost importance to further understand how our bodies will react. There is a high risk of increasing hospital admissions, e...

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Main Author: Hopp, Stephanie
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/16072