Effects of sudden air pressure changes on hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases in Prague, 1994?2009

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-013-0735-y" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-013-0735-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-013-0735-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00484-013-0735-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effects of sudden air pressure changes on hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases in Prague, 1994?2009

Original language description

Sudden weather changes have long been thought to be associated with negative impacts on human health, but relatively few studies have attempted to quantify these relationships. We use large 6-h changes in atmospheric pressure as a proxy for sudden weather changes and evaluate their association with hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Winter and summer seasons and positive and negative pressure changes are analysed separately, using data for the city of Prague (population 1.2 million)over a 16-year period (1994?2009). We found that sudden pressure drops in winter are associated with significant rise in hospital admissions. Increased CVD morbidity was observed neither for pressure drops in summer nor pressure increases in any season.Analysis of synoptic weather maps shows that large pressure drops in winter are associated with strong zonal flow and rapidly moving low-pressure systems with centres over northern Europe and atmospheric fronts affecting western and centr

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DG - Atmospheric sciences, meteorology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP209%2F11%2F1985" target="_blank" >GAP209/11/1985: Temporal and spatial patterns of links between weather and morbidity due to cardiovascular diseases</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Biometeorology

ISSN

0020-7128

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

58

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1327-1337

UT code for WoS article

000339419900031

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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