Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Association Between the Incidence of Hospitalizations for Acute Cardiovascular Events, Weather, and Air Pollution
Study context
- Population
- ∼24 million people in Canada, 2007–2017; hospitalizations for HF (922,132 episodes), MI (521,988 episodes) and ischemic stroke (263,529 episodes)
- Participants
- ∼24 million people
- Exposure
- Models with vs without weather and air pollution variables
- Outcome
- Incidence rate of hospital admissions for HF, MI and ischemic stroke in association with weather and air pollution
Methodological detailshierarchical Bayesian model, population-based, 2007–2017
- Hierarchical Bayesian model
- Population-based
- 2007–2017
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Association of weather and air pollution with HF, MI and ischemic stroke hospitalizations
- Models with weather and air pollution variables outperformed models without them for most event types
- Environmental factors may interact in complex ways on human physiology
- Impact of environmental factors magnified with increasing age
- Weather and air pollution variables predictive of future incidence of HF, MI and ischemic stroke
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Association Between the Incidence of Hospitalizations for Acute Cardiovascular Events, Weather, and Air Pollution. JACC Adv. Published 24 May 2023. doi:10.
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