ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2024
Impact of heat waves on human morbidity and hospital admissions in a city of the western mediterranean area.
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- Disparity in the regulation and prevention of water versus sodium imbalance in heat-stress nephropathy: a phylogenetic perspective.Clinical kidney journal · 2026Review
- Effects of Heat Waves on Hospitalizations, Emergency Department Visits, and Outpatient Care in Frail Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Exploring Emerging Trends in Climate Change's Impacts on the Cardiopulmonary Health of Adults Living in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland: Preliminary Autumn and Winter Results from a Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Extreme temperatures, recent warming and seasonal influenza-linking human exposures to respiratory health in southern Germany.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2025Article
- Heat Tolerance in Older Adults: A Systematic Review of Thermoregulation, Vulnerability, Environmental Change, and Health Outcomes.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Analysis of social determinants of health and extreme climate events: Identifying vulnerable populations and health outcomes in Jacksonville.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Building health systems resilience: understanding the social, economic, and cultural impacts of climate change from stakeholders' perspectives in Indonesia.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeThe effect of heat waves on mortality is well known, but current evidence on morbidity is limited. Establishing the consequences of these events in terms of morbidity is important to ensure communities and health systems can adapt to them.
methodsWe thus collected data on total daily emergency hospital admissions, admissions to critical care units, emergency department admissions, and emergency admissions for specific diagnoses to Hospital Universitario de Son Espases from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2021. A heat wave was defined as a period of ≥ 2 days with a maximum temperature ≥ 35 °C, including a 7 day lag effect (inclusive). We used a quasi-Poisson generalized linear model to estimate relative risks (RRs; 95%CI) for heat wave-related hospital admissions.
resultsResults showed statistically significant increases in total emergency admissions (RR 1.06; 95%CI 1 - 1.12), emergency department admissions (RR 1.12; 95%CI 1.07 - 1.18), and admissions for ischemic stroke (RR 1.26; 95%CI 1.02 - 1.54), acute kidney injury (RR 1.67; 95%CI 1.16 - 2.35), and heat stroke (RR 18.73, 95%CI 6.48 - 45.83) during heat waves.
conclusionHeat waves increase hospitalization risk, primarily for thromboembolic and renal diseases and heat strokes.
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