ArticlePreventive medicine reports2025
Effects of high summer temperatures on heatstroke-related ambulance dispatches in Japan: A nationwide time-stratified case-crossover analysis.
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Objective: While the short-term effects of ambient temperature on heatstroke mortality have been studied across various countries, the impact on morbidity and its spatial distribution remains insufficiently examined. We quantified the association between maximum temperature and heatstroke-related ambulance dispatch (HSAD) cases in Japan using daily national data. Methods: Daily HSAD counts and meteorological data (daily maximum temperature (°C), relative humidity (%), wind speed (m/s), and sunshine duration (h)) were analyzed for June-September (summer), 2015-2019, across 47 Japanese prefectures. A time-stratified case-crossover study with conditional quasi-Poisson regression combined with a distributed lag non-linear model was used to estimate maximum temperature-HSAD associations in Japan between 2015 and 2019. A random-effects meta-analysis pooled country-level association. Results: A total of 300,528 HSAD cases were analyzed. Higher temperatures were associated with an increased risk of HSAD cases. The overall lag-cumulative relative risk at the 95th percentile of maximum temperature (35.3 °C) compared to the minimum morbidity temperature (18.2 °C) was 19.23, with a 95 % confidence interval of 13.95 to 26.51. Lagged effects of higher temperatures persisted for up to 2 days. Significant geographical variation in HSAD cases was observed (Cochran Conclusions: Our study demonstrated the influence of heat on HSAD cases in Japan, emphasizing the necessity of preventive strategies to reduce the impact of temperature on heatstroke morbidity.
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