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Effect of Previous-Winter Mortality on the Association between Summer Temperature and Mortality in South Korea

BACKGROUND: It has recently been postulated that low mortality levels in the previous winter may increase the proportion of vulnerable individuals in the pool of people at risk of heat-related death during the summer months. OBJECTIVES: We explored the sensitivity of heat-related mortality in summer...

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Autores principales: Ha, Jongsik, Kim, Ho, Hajat, Shakoor
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21233056
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1002080