Is the association between temperature and mortality modified by age, gender and socio-economic status?

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
4431214	Science of The Total Environment	2010	6 Pages	PDF

Abstract

The effects of high temperature on all deaths were modified by age and gender but not by SES in Brisbane, Australia.

Keywords

IER GAM SLA Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage PM10 AIC IRSAD IPCC IEO SES Effect modification Ozone Cardiovascular diseases Respiratory diseases Gender ICD Temperature dow CVD Relative humidity Day of the week Age SEIFA Spearman correlation coefficient Generalised additive model Mortality Akaike's Information Criterion Nitrogen dioxide NO2 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change socio-economic status

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Is the association between temperature and mortality modified by age, gender and socio-economic status?

Authors

Weiwei Yu, Pavla Vaneckova, Kerrie Mengersen, Xiaochuan Pan, Shilu Tong,