National and regional seasonal dynamics of all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the USA from 1980 to 2016
In temperate climates, winter deaths exceed summer ones. However, there is limited information on the timing and the relative magnitudes of maximum and minimum mortality, by local climate, age group, sex and medical cause of death. We used geo-coded mortality data and wavelets to analyse the seasona...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2018-10-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/35500 |