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SUBMITTER: Ferreira LCM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6760184 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ferreira Letícia de Castro Martins LCM Nogueira Mário Círio MC Pereira Ricardo Vela de Britto RVB de Farias William Cossich Marcial WCM Rodrigues Moreno Magalhaes de Souza MMS Teixeira Maria Teresa Bustamante MTB Carvalho Marilia Sá MS
Scientific reports 20190924 1
Ambient temperature may lead to decompensation of cardiovascular diseases and deaths by acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Little is known about this relationship in South American countries located in regions of a hot climate. This study aims to investigate the effects of ambient temperature on mortality due to AMI in six Brazilian micro-regions, which present different climates. We analyzed daily records of deaths by AMI between 1996 and 2013. We estimated the accumulate relative and attributa ...[more]