ArticleInternational journal of public health2024
Risk, Attributable Fraction and Attributable Number of Cause-Specific Heat-Related Emergency Hospital Admissions in Switzerland.
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- Extreme heat and mental health: systematic review and qualitative investigation of risk and protective factors.Psychological medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Epidemiology, mechanisms and clinical implications of heat-related kidney disease.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2026Review
- Quantifying the financial burden of heat-related hospital admissions in Switzerland under a changing climate: A scalable analytical framework.BMC global and public health · 2026Article
- Mapping the global health burden of climate-sensitive exposures: a systematic scoping review.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2026Article
- Unveiling heat vulnerability of older adults: an assessment of emergency hospital admissions in Switzerland.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Ambient temperature as a proxy indicator for carbon monoxide poisoning risk: deriving exploratory reference points for public health monitoring in Chengdu, China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Environmental Heat and Renal Health Across Cosmopolitan Populations: A Scoping Review Focused on Sex-Specific Vulnerability.International journal of public health · 2026Article
- Forecasting tool of hospital demand during heat periods: a time-series regression study in Bern, Switzerland.BMJ public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Objectives: We assessed the relationship between heat and emergency hospital admissions (EHAs) in Switzerland using clinically relevant metrics. Methods: Applying distributed lag non-linear models, we investigated temperature-admission associations between May and September 1998-2019 for various disease groups, by age class and gender. We estimated the relative risk (RR) for moderate (29°C) and extreme (34°C) daily maximum temperatures relative to disease-specific optimum temperature, and calculated attributable fractions (AFs) for hot days and the following week. We also calculated the total number of heat-related EHAs. Results: We attributed 31,387 (95% confidence interval: 21,567-40,408) EHAs to above-optimal temperatures, 1.1% (0.7%-1.4%) of the total. Extreme temperatures increased the EHA risk for mental, infectious and neurological diseases. We observed particularly high AFs due to extreme heat for dehydration (85.9%, 95% CI: 82.4%-88.8%) and acute kidney injury (AKI, 56.1%, 95% CI: 45.3%-64.7%). While EHA risk generally increased with age, we also found high RRs for infectious diseases in children (0-15 years) and AKI in young adults (15-64 years). Conclusion: Hot weather increases the EHA risk in Switzerland. Therefore a comprehensive clinical and public health response is needed.
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