Seasonal variation of overall and cardiovascular mortality: a study in 19 countries from different geographic locations.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) mortality has been shown to follow a seasonal pattern. Several studies suggested several possible determinants of this pattern, including misclassification of causes of deaths. We aimed at assessing seasonality in overall, CVD, cancer and non-CVD/non-cancer mortality us...

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Main Authors: Helena Marti-Soler, Semira Gonseth, Cédric Gubelmann, Silvia Stringhini, Pascal Bovet, Pau-Chung Chen, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Fred Paccaud, Dai-Hua Tsai, Tomasz Zdrojewski, Pedro Marques-Vidal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4242652?pdf=render