ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Daylight Saving Time Transitions: Impact on Total Mortality.
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- A systematic review of epidemiological studies into daylight-saving time & health identifying beneficial & adverse effects.European journal of epidemiology · 2026Pooled it
- When the Clock Shifts: A Comprehensive Review of Daylight-Saving Time (DST), Circadian Disruption, and Neuropsychological Risk in Chronic Mental Illness.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- The British Sleep Society position statement on Daylight Saving Time in the UK.Journal of sleep research · 2025Review
- Assessing the best hour to start the day: an appraisal of seasonal daylight saving time.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Attributable deaths in Austria due to ozone under different climate scenarios.European journal of public health · 2024Article
- All cause and cause specific mortality associated with transition to daylight saving time in US: nationwide, time series, observational study.BMJ medicine · 2024Article
- Days to re-entrainment following the spring and autumn changes in local clock time: Beyond simple heuristics.Frontiers in photonics · 2024Article
- Time series analysis in environmental epidemiology: challenges and considerations.International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health · 2023Review
- Circadian rhythms and inflammatory diseases of the liver and gut.Liver research (Beijing, China) · 2023Review
- Daylight saving time affects European mortality patterns.Nature communications · 2022Article
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- Driving simulator performance worsens after the Spring transition to Daylight Saving Time.iScience · 2022Article
- Sleep and Alcohol Use Patterns During Federal Holidays and Daylight Saving Time Transitions in the United States.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Circadian Mechanisms in Medicine.The New England journal of medicine · 2021Review
- Nitrogen-Dioxide Remains a Valid Air Quality Indicator.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
In Europe and many countries worldwide, a half-yearly changing time scheme has been adopted with the aim of optimizing the use of natural daylight during working hours and saving energy. Because the expected net economic benefit was not achieved, the discussion about the optimal solution has been reopened with a shifted focus on social and health related consequences. We set out to produce evidence for this discussion and analysed the impact of daylight saving time on total mortality of a general population in a time series study on daily total mortality for the years 1970-2018 in the city of Vienna, Austria. Daily deaths were modelled by Poisson regression controlling for seasonal and long-term trend, same-day and 14-day average temperature, humidity, and day of week. During the week after the spring transition a significant increase in daily total mortality of about 3% per day was observed. This was not the case during the week after the fall transition. The increase in daily mortality as observed in the week after spring DST-transition is most likely causally linked to the change in time scheme.
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