By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Cardiovascular Device Liability Week -- Investigators publish new report on Environmental Health - Environmental Health Research. According to news reporting originating from London, United Kingdom, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Cold-related mortality and morbidity remains an important public health problem in the UK and elsewhere. Health burdens have often reported to be higher in the UK compared to other countries with colder climates, however such assessments are usually based on comparison of excess winter mortality indices, which are subject to biases.”
Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, “Daily time-series regression or case-crossover studies provide the best evidence of the acute effects of cold exposure. Such studies report a 6% increase in all-cause deaths in England & Wales for every 1 A degrees C fall in daily mean temperature within the top 5% of the coldest days. In major Scottish cities, a 1 A degrees C reduction in mean temperature below 11 A degrees C was associated with an increase in mortality of 2.9%, 3.4%, 4.8% and 1.7% from all-causes, cardiovascular, respiratory, and non-cardio-respiratory causes respectively. In Northern Ireland, a 1 A degrees C fall during winter months led to reductions of 4.5%, 3.9% and 11.2% for all-cause, cardiovascular and respiratory deaths respectively among adults. Raised risks are also observed with morbidity outcomes. Hip fractures among the elderly are only weakly associated with snow and ice conditions in the UK, with the majority of cases occurring indoors. A person’s susceptibility to cold weather is affected by both individual- and contextual-level risk factors. Variations in the distributions of health, demographic, socio-economic and built-environment characteristics are likely to explain most differences in cold risk observed between UK regions. Although cold-related health impacts reduced throughout much of the previous century in UK populations, there is little evidence on the contribution that milder winters due to climate change may have made to reductions in more recent decades.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Intervention measures designed to minimise cold exposure and reduce fuel poverty will likely play a key role in determining current and future health burdens associated with cold weather.”
For more information on this research see: Health effects of milder winters: a review of evidence from the United Kingdom. Environmental Health , 2017;16():15-22. Environmental Health can be contacted at: Biomed Central Ltd, 236 Grays Inn Rd, Floor 6, London WC1X 8HL, England. (BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com/; Environmental Health - www.ehjournal.net)
The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting S. Hajat, London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, Dept. of Social & Environm Hlth Res, London WC1H 9SH, United Kingdom.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0323-4. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2017-12-31), Studies Conducted at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Environmental Health Research Recently Reported (Health effects of milder winters: a review of evidence from the United Kingdom), Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, 9, ISSN: 1552-2490, BUTTER® ID: 014887509
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