Elevated chronic bronchitis diagnosis risk among women in a local emergency department patient population associated with the 2012 heatwave and drought in Douglas county, NE USA

• Published in: Heart & lung Vol. 49; no. 6; pp. 934 - 939
• Main Author: Figgs, Larry W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.11.2020
• Subjects: Bronchitis, Chronic - diagnosis; Bronchitis, Chronic - epidemiology; Chronic bronchitis; Diagnosis risk; Drought; Droughts; Emergency department; Emergency Service, Hospital; Female; Heatwave; Humans; Humidity; Nebraska; Retrospective Studies; Women; Nebraska; Women; df; Heatwave; DCHD; F; DCHD AQL; ICD9; ESSENCE; Emergency department; DMATm; U.S. EPA; Humidity; NE; PM2.5; AQI; HMAT; PM10; Drought; DMAT; NCEI; Chronic bronchitis; Diagnosis risk; COPD; ED

Concerns about global climate change force local public health agencies to assess potential local disease risk. Determine if risk of an emergency department chronic bronchitis diagnosis in Douglas County, NE, was higher during the 2012 heatwave compared to the same calendar period in 2011. Retrospec...