Comparison of temperature-mortality associations estimated with different exposure metrics

Environmental Epidemiology
Kate R WeinbergerGregory A Wellenius

Abstract

Studies of the short-term association between ambient temperature and mortality often use temperature observations from a single monitoring station, frequently located at the nearest airport, to represent the exposure of individuals living across large areas. Population-weighted temperature estimates constructed from gridded meteorological data may offer an opportunity to improve exposure assessment in locations where station observations do not fully capture the average exposure of the population of interest. We compared the association between daily mean temperature and mortality in each of 113 United States counties using (1) temperature observations from a single weather station and (2) population-weighted temperature estimates constructed from a gridded meteorological dataset. We used distributed lag nonlinear models to estimate the 21-day cumulative association between temperature and mortality in each county, 1987-2006, adjusting for seasonal and long-term trends, day of week, and holidays. In the majority (73.4%) of counties, the relative risk of death on extremely hot days (99th percentile of weather station temperature) versus the minimum mortality temperature was larger when generated from the population-weighted est...Continue Reading

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Jul 3, 2020·Environmental Epidemiology·Kate R WeinbergerGregory A Wellenius
Apr 20, 2021·Environmental Epidemiology·Keith R Spangler, Gregory A Wellenius
May 12, 2021·Environmental Research·Aleš UrbanAntonio Gasparrini

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