Extremely cold and hot temperatures increase the risk of ischaemic heart disease mortality: epidemiological evidence from China

Yuming Guo; Shanshan Li; Yanshen Zhang; Ben Armstrong; Jouni J K Jaakkola; Shilu Tong; Xiaochuan Pan

doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302518

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Extremely cold and hot temperatures increase the risk of ischaemic heart disease mortality: epidemiological evidence from China

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Yuming Guo Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Shanshan Li Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Yanshen Zhang Center for Environmental Risk and Damage Assessment, Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, Beijing, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ben Armstrong Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jouni J K Jaakkola Center for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Shilu Tong School of Public Health and Social Work and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Xiaochuan Pan Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Yuming Guo, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia; guoyuming{at}yahoo.cnProfessor Xiaochuan Pan, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China; xcpan@hsc.pku.edu.au

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Guo Y, Li S, Zhang Y, et al

Extremely cold and hot temperatures increase the risk of ischaemic heart disease mortality: epidemiological evidence from China

Heart 2013;99:195-203.

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Received June 1, 2012
Revised October 4, 2012
Accepted October 6, 2012
First published November 13, 2012.

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October 25, 2017

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