Effects of the Minimum Temperature in Summer on the Hospital Emergency Room Visits for Cardiocerebrovascular Diseases,2004-2006 / 环境与健康杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the association between the minimum temperature in different seasons and the hospital emergency room visits for cardiocerebrovascular diseases(International Classification of Diseases,tenth vision ICD-10I00-I99) in Beijing,China.Methods The data of the daily hospital emergency room visits for cardiocerebrovascular diseases(ICD-10I00-I99)from one of Peking university hospitals,the data of relevant ambient air pollution from the Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center and the data of meteorological index from China meteorological data sharing service system between 2004— 2006 were collected The time-stratified case-crossover design was used to analyze the data.Results After adjusting SO2,NO2,and PM10,the results showed that each 1 ℃ increase in the daily minimum temperature in summer was associated with the intraday hospital emergency room visits(OR=1.039,P