Tropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adults
Tropical cyclones can cause severe damage and can thus have devastating impacts on societies. Here, the authors use Medicare data to show that tropical cyclone exposure in the United States is associated with increased hospitalization rates for older adults from many different acute causes.
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| author | Robbie M. Parks G. Brooke Anderson Rachel C. Nethery Ana Navas-Acien Francesca Dominici Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou |
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| description | Tropical cyclones can cause severe damage and can thus have devastating impacts on societies. Here, the authors use Medicare data to show that tropical cyclone exposure in the United States is associated with increased hospitalization rates for older adults from many different acute causes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-febc4e7f20fd4dd2a51be165073b09d52022-12-21T20:31:26ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232021-03-0112111210.1038/s41467-021-21777-1Tropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adultsRobbie M. Parks0G. Brooke Anderson1Rachel C. Nethery2Ana Navas-Acien3Francesca Dominici4Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou5The Earth Institute, Columbia UniversityDepartment of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State UniversityDepartment of Biostatistics, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard UniversityDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia UniversityDepartment of Biostatistics, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard UniversityDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia UniversityTropical cyclones can cause severe damage and can thus have devastating impacts on societies. Here, the authors use Medicare data to show that tropical cyclone exposure in the United States is associated with increased hospitalization rates for older adults from many different acute causes.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21777-1 |
| spellingShingle | Robbie M. Parks G. Brooke Anderson Rachel C. Nethery Ana Navas-Acien Francesca Dominici Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou Tropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adults Nature Communications |
| title | Tropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adults |
| title_full | Tropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adults |
| title_fullStr | Tropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adults |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adults |
| title_short | Tropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adults |
| title_sort | tropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adults |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21777-1 |
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