A study of the short-term associations between hospital admissions and mortality from heart failure and meteorological variables in Hong Kong: Weather and heart failure in Hong Kong.
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Abstract
Previous research has shown winter peaks for both hospitalizations and mortality from
HF, but few studies have examined the association between meteorological parameters
and HF.
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Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong. Electronic address: wgoggins@cuhk.edu.hk.
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Division of Family Medicine, School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.