Associations between changes in city and address specific temperature and QT interval--the VA Normative Aging Study.

The underlying mechanisms of the association between ambient temperature and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are not well understood, particularly for daily temperature variability. We evaluated if daily mean temperature and standard deviation of temperature was associated with heart rate-cor...

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Main Authors: Amar J Mehta, Itai Kloog, Antonella Zanobetti, Brent A Coull, David Sparrow, Pantel Vokonas, Joel Schwartz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4169528?pdf=render