ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2021
Association Between Hurricane Sandy and Emergency Department Visits in New York City by Age and Cause.
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- Health Effects of Cyclones: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Epidemiological Studies.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Pooled it
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- Impacts of Natural Disasters on Emergency Care Delivery in the United States: A Scoping Review and Digital Health-Informed Framework.Environmental health insights · 2026Review
- Cause specific mortality risks associated with tropical cyclones in multiple countries and territories: two stage, time series study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2025Article
- Hospitalization risk and burden for cause-specific cardiovascular diseases following tropical cyclones: A multicountry study.Science advances · 2025Article
- Emergency Care, Hospitalization Rates, and Floods.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Impact of extreme weather events on healthcare utilization and mortality in the United States.Nature medicine · 2024Article
- The threaten of typhoons to the health of residents in inland areas: a study on the vulnerability of residents to death risk during typhoon "Lekima" : In Jinan, China.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Emergency department visits respond nonlinearly to wildfire smoke.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Precipitation and Adolescent Respiratory Health in the Northeast United States.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2023Article
- Adverse Health Outcomes Following Hurricane Harvey: A Comparison of Remotely-Sensed and Self-Reported Flood Exposure Estimates.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- Short-term effects of tropical cyclones on the incidence of dengue: a time-series study in Guangzhou, China.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- Assessing short-term and long-term mental health effects among older adults after Hurricane Sandy.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
- Projecting the Impacts of a Changing Climate: Tropical Cyclones and Flooding.Current environmental health reports · 2022Review
- Exposure Assessment for Tropical Cyclone Epidemiology.Current environmental health reports · 2022Review
- Emergency department visits associated with satellite observed flooding during and following Hurricane Harvey.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The magnitude, timing, and etiology of morbidity associated with tropical cyclones remains incompletely quantified. We examined the relative change in cause-specific emergency department (ED) visits among residents of New York City during and after Hurricane Sandy, a tropical cyclone that affected the northeastern United States in October 2012. We used quasi-Poisson constrained distributed lag models to compare the number of ED visits on and after Hurricane Sandy with all other days, 2005-2014, adjusting for temporal trends. Among residents aged ≥65 years, Hurricane Sandy was associated with a higher rate of ED visits due to injuries and poisoning (relative risk (RR) = 1.19, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.10, 1.28), respiratory disease (RR = 1.35, 95% CI: 1.21, 1.49), cardiovascular disease (RR = 1.10, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.19), renal disease (RR = 1.44, 95% CI: 1.22, 1.72), and skin and soft tissue infections (RR = 1.20, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.39) in the first week following the storm. Among adults aged 18-64 years, Hurricane Sandy was associated with a higher rate of ED visits for renal disease (RR = 2.15, 95% CI: 1.79, 2.59). Among those aged 0-17 years, the storm was associated with lower rates of ED visits for up to 3 weeks. These results suggest that tropical cyclones might result in increased health-care utilization due to a wide range of causes, particularly among older adults.
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