Does choice of outdoor heat metric affect heat-related epidemiologic analyses in the US Medicare population?

Keith R SpanglerQuinn H AdamsJie Kate HuDanielle BraunKate R WeinbergerFrancesca DominiciGregory A Wellenius

Published in: Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) (2023)

Among Medicare beneficiaries in populous US counties, daily maximum and mean values of outdoor heat are associated with greater RRs of heat-related morbidity and all-cause mortality versus minimum values of the same metric. The choice of heat metric (e.g., temperature versus HI) does not appear to substantively affect risk calculations in this population.

Keyphrases

heat stress
air pollution
physical activity
particulate matter
molecular dynamics
density functional theory
molecular dynamics simulations
affordable care act