S Hajat

..To assess the impact on the outcome of total hip replacement of the length of timing spent waiting for surgery...

..This trend is likely to reflect improvements in social, environmental, behavioral, and health-care factors and has implications for the assessment of future burdens of heat and cold mortality...

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..Short-term fluctuations in air pollution have been associated with changes in both overall and cardiovascular mortality...

..In particular, how heat-mortality associations (for example, slopes and thresholds) vary by climate has previously been considered only qualitatively...

..We investigated the effect of high temperatures on daily mortality in three cities in Europe (Budapest, London, and Milan), using a standard approach...

..This study suggests that air pollution worsens allergic rhinitis symptoms, leading to substantial increases in consultations. SO(2) and O(3) seem particularly responsible, and both seem to contribute independently...

..We compare the extent to which short-term mortality displacement can explain heat deaths in Delhi, São Paulo, and London given contrasting demographic and health profiles...

..Despite the high burden from exposure to both hot and cold weather each year in England and Wales, there has been relatively little investigation on who is most at risk, resulting in uncertainties in informing government interventions...

..We wished to determine the magnitude and consistency of associations between cold temperature and consultations for respiratory conditions in primary care settings at different sites in the UK...

..To date, there has been no investigation of the effects of outdoor pollution on infant mortality in the UK...

..Very little work on alcohol consumption patterns in older people has been undertaken. As a result, knowledge about the prevalence and characteristics of regular drinkers and heavy drinkers in this age group remains limited...

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..We wished to determine whether similar relationships exist with consultations in the primary care setting and to assess the lag time at which the effects were observed...

..We investigated the relation between air pollution and upper respiratory disease as reflected in number of consultations made at family practices in London...

..This study investigated the relation between heat and mortality in London to determine the temperature threshold at which death rates increase and to quantify the effect of extreme temperatures on mortality...

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..We compared the ability of several heat-health warning systems to predict days of heat-associated mortality using common data sets...

..Epidemiological research has shown that mortality increases during hot weather and heat waves, but little is known about the effect on non-fatal outcomes in the UK...

..Outdoor aeroallergens are one of a number of environmental factors thought to precipitate asthma exacerbations...

..While the effects of weather and, in particular, ambient temperature on overall mortality are well documented, the strength of the evidence base for the effects on acute myocardial infarction (MI) are less clear...

..The more complex and delayed temperature effect on disease incidence is likely to be mediated through the effects of weather on transmission...

..Our findings provide evidence that ambient temperature influences Campylobacter incidence, and suggest that its effect is likely to be indirect, acting through other intermediate pathways...

..ENSO and seasonal climate forecasts might offer the opportunity to target scarce resources for epidemic control and disaster preparedness...

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..This large study, covering 13 years, suggests that there is no association between preterm births and recent exposure to ambient air pollution or recent changes in the weather...

..We estimated the effects of rainfall and temperature on the number of non-cholera diarrhoea cases and identified population factors potentially affecting vulnerability to the effect of the climate factors in Dhaka, Bangladesh...

..The main driver of seasonality of campylobacter remains elusive and underscores the need to identify the major serotypes and routes of transmission for this disease...

..Both RSV infection and influenza are seasonally related, and it is difficult to disentangle one from the other and to disentangle infection from the season and the cold...

..To examine the short term relation between ambient temperature and risk of myocardial infarction...

..Our findings indicate that higher temperatures around the time of consumption are important and reinforce the need for further education on food-handling behaviour...

..The incidence of cholera in Bangladesh shows clear seasonality, suggesting that weather factors could play a role in its epidemiology. We estimated the effects of rainfall on the incidence of cholera in Dhaka, Bangladesh...

..To examine national practice, and variations in practice, concerning total hip replacement; in particular the choice of prosthesis and the involvement of consultants in NHS operations...

..Air pollution may increase the incidence of ventricular cardiac arrhythmias. We investigated this in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators attending London clinics...

..This study describes heat- and cold-related mortality in 12 urban populations in low- and middle-income countries, thereby extending knowledge of how diverse populations, in non-OECD countries, respond to temperature extremes...

..We investigated the impact of environmental temperature on mortality in São Paulo, Brazil, and examined differences in the temperature-mortality relationship with respect to cause, age group, and socioeconomic position (SEP)...

..Seasonal fluctuation in suicide has been observed in many populations. High temperature may contribute to this, but the effect of short-term fluctuations in temperature on suicide rates has not been studied...

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