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Vulnerability to extreme-heat-associated hospitalization in three counties in Michigan, USA, 2000–2009

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Biometeorology, October 2016
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Title
Vulnerability to extreme-heat-associated hospitalization in three counties in Michigan, USA, 2000–2009
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International Journal of Biometeorology, October 2016
DOI 10.1007/s00484-016-1261-5
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Adesuwa S. Ogbomo, Carina J. Gronlund, Marie S. O’Neill, Tess Konen, Lorraine Cameron, Robert Wahl

Abstract

With climate change, extreme heat (EH) events are increasing, so it is important to understand who is vulnerable to heat-associated morbidity. We determined the association between EH and hospitalizations for all natural causes; cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal diseases; diabetes mellitus; and acute myocardial infarction in Michigan, USA, at different intensities and durations. We assessed confounding by ozone and how individual characteristics and health insurance payer (a proxy for income) modified these associations. We obtained Michigan Inpatient Database, National Climatic Data Center, and US Environmental Protection Agency ozone data for May-September, 2000-2009 for three Michigan counties. We employed a case-crossover design and modeled EH as an indicator for temperature above the 95th, 97th, or 99th percentile thresholds for 1, 2, 3, or 4 days. We examined effect modification by patient age, race, sex, and health insurance payer and pooled the county results. Among non-whites, the pooled odds ratio for hospitalization on EH (97th percentile threshold) vs. non-EH days for renal diseases was 1.37 (95 % CI = 1.13-1.66), which increased with increasing EH intensity, but was null among whites (OR = 1.00, 95 % CI = 0.81, 1.25). We observed a null association between EH and cardiovascular hospitalization. EH (99th percentile threshold) was associated with myocardial infarction hospitalizations. Confounding by ozone was minimal. EH was associated with hospitalizations for renal disease among non-whites. This information on vulnerability to heat-associated morbidity helps characterize the public health burden of EH and target interventions including patient education.

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Unknown 81 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 19%
Researcher 13 16%
Student > Bachelor 12 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 9%
Other 4 5%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 23 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 16 20%
Social Sciences 10 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 5%
Other 13 16%
Unknown 25 31%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 October 2019.
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#7,003,498
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Outputs from International Journal of Biometeorology
#655
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#105,674
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Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Biometeorology
#5
of 16 outputs
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