Heat health risk assessment analysing heatstroke patients in Fukuoka City, Japan.

<h4>Background</h4>Climate change, as a defining issue of the current time, is causing severe heat-related illness in the context of extremely hot weather conditions. In Japan, the remarkable temperature increase in summer caused by an urban heat island and climate change has become a th...

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Autores principales:	Nishat Tasnim Toosty, Aya Hagishima, Ken-Ichi Tanaka
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:33ba0d859bc14ca4a8759e24c83e40102021-12-02T20:15:48ZHeat health risk assessment analysing heatstroke patients in Fukuoka City, Japan.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0253011https://doaj.org/article/33ba0d859bc14ca4a8759e24c83e40102021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253011https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203<h4>Background</h4>Climate change, as a defining issue of the current time, is causing severe heat-related illness in the context of extremely hot weather conditions. In Japan, the remarkable temperature increase in summer caused by an urban heat island and climate change has become a threat to public health in recent years.<h4>Methods</h4>This study aimed to determine the potential risk factors for heatstroke by analysing data extracted from the records of emergency transport to the hospital due to heatstroke in Fukuoka City, Japan. In this regard, a negative binomial regression model was used to account for overdispersion in the data. Age-structure analyses of heatstroke patients were also embodied to identify the sub-population of Fukuoka City with the highest susceptibility.<h4>Results</h4>The daily maximum temperature and wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT), along with differences in both the mean temperature and time-weighted temperature from those of the consecutive past days were detected as significant risk factors for heatstroke. Results indicated that there was a positive association between the resulting risk factors and the probability of heatstroke occurrence. The elderly of Fukuoka City aged 70 years or older were found to be the most vulnerable to heatstroke. Most of the aforementioned risk factors also encountered significant and positive associations with the risk of heatstroke occurrence for the group with highest susceptibility.<h4>Conclusion</h4>These results can provide insights for health professionals and stakeholders in designing their strategies to reduce heatstroke patients and to secure the emergency transport systems in summer.Nishat Tasnim ToostyAya HagishimaKen-Ichi TanakaPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0253011 (2021)
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description	<h4>Background</h4>Climate change, as a defining issue of the current time, is causing severe heat-related illness in the context of extremely hot weather conditions. In Japan, the remarkable temperature increase in summer caused by an urban heat island and climate change has become a threat to public health in recent years.<h4>Methods</h4>This study aimed to determine the potential risk factors for heatstroke by analysing data extracted from the records of emergency transport to the hospital due to heatstroke in Fukuoka City, Japan. In this regard, a negative binomial regression model was used to account for overdispersion in the data. Age-structure analyses of heatstroke patients were also embodied to identify the sub-population of Fukuoka City with the highest susceptibility.<h4>Results</h4>The daily maximum temperature and wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT), along with differences in both the mean temperature and time-weighted temperature from those of the consecutive past days were detected as significant risk factors for heatstroke. Results indicated that there was a positive association between the resulting risk factors and the probability of heatstroke occurrence. The elderly of Fukuoka City aged 70 years or older were found to be the most vulnerable to heatstroke. Most of the aforementioned risk factors also encountered significant and positive associations with the risk of heatstroke occurrence for the group with highest susceptibility.<h4>Conclusion</h4>These results can provide insights for health professionals and stakeholders in designing their strategies to reduce heatstroke patients and to secure the emergency transport systems in summer.
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author	Nishat Tasnim Toosty Aya Hagishima Ken-Ichi Tanaka
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title	Heat health risk assessment analysing heatstroke patients in Fukuoka City, Japan.
title_short	Heat health risk assessment analysing heatstroke patients in Fukuoka City, Japan.
title_full	Heat health risk assessment analysing heatstroke patients in Fukuoka City, Japan.
title_fullStr	Heat health risk assessment analysing heatstroke patients in Fukuoka City, Japan.
title_full_unstemmed	Heat health risk assessment analysing heatstroke patients in Fukuoka City, Japan.
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Heat health risk assessment analysing heatstroke patients in Fukuoka City, Japan.

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