Emergency department asthma diagnosis risk associated with the 2012 heat wave and drought in Douglas County NE, USA

Global climate change concerns are forcing local public health agencies to assess potential disease risk. Determine if risk of an emergency department asthma diagnosis in Douglas County, NE, was higher during the 2012 heatwave compared to 2011. Retrospective, observational, case-control design selec...

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Published in:Heart & lung 2019-05, Vol.48 (3), p.250-257
Main Author: Figgs, Larry W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
African–American
Asthma
Asthma - diagnosis
Asthma - epidemiology
Case-Control Studies
Child
Children
Drought
Droughts
Elderly
Emergency Service, Hospital
Female
Heatwave
Hospitalization
Hot Temperature - adverse effects
Humans
Humidity
Incidence
Male
Nebraska - epidemiology
Retrospective Studies
Risk
Risk Assessment - methods
Young Adult
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Summary:Global climate change concerns are forcing local public health agencies to assess potential disease risk. Determine if risk of an emergency department asthma diagnosis in Douglas County, NE, was higher during the 2012 heatwave compared to 2011. Retrospective, observational, case-control design selecting subjects from 2011 and 2012 emergency department (ED) admissions. Risk was estimated by conditional logistic regression. The asthma ED risk estimate was 1.23 (95%CI = 0.96–1.57) times higher in 2012 than 2011, for the same calendar period. Asthma ED diagnosis risk was 3.37 (95%CI = 2.27–4.17) times higher among subjects
ISSN:0147-9563
1527-3288
DOI:10.1016/j.hrtlng.2018.12.005