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1. Temperature variation and emergency hospital admissions for stroke in Brisbane, Australia, 1996–2005.

Author

Xiao Wang, Adrian Barnett, Wenbiao Hu, and Shilu Tong

Subjects
PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of temperature, HOSPITAL emergency services, HOSPITAL admission & discharge, CEREBROVASCULAR disease, PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of weather, METEOROLOGY, AIR pollution, GENERALIZED estimating equations
Abstract

Abstract  Stroke is a leading cause of disability and death. This study evaluated the association between temperature variation and emergency admissions for stroke in Brisbane, Australia. Daily emergency admissions for stroke, meteorologic and air pollution data were obtained for the period of January 1996 to December 2005. The relative risk of emergency admissions for stroke was estimated with a generalized estimating equations (GEE) model. For primary intracerebral hemorrhage (PIH) emergency admissions, the average daily PIH for the group aged [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2009
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