Association Between Ambient Temperature and Years of Life Lost from Stroke - 30 PLADs, China, 2013-2016

Jinlei Qi; Fei Tian; Siqi Ai; Peng Yin; Maigeng Zhou; Lijun Wang; Hualiang Lin

doi:10.46234/ccdcw2021.125

Association Between Ambient Temperature and Years of Life Lost from Stroke - 30 PLADs, China, 2013-2016

China CDC Wkly. 2021 Jun 4;3(23):485-489. doi: 10.46234/ccdcw2021.125.

Authors

Jinlei Qi¹, Fei Tian², Siqi Ai², Peng Yin¹, Maigeng Zhou¹, Lijun Wang¹, Hualiang Lin²

Affiliations

¹ National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
² Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong, China.

Abstract

What is already known about this topic?

Previous studies have mainly focused on the relationship between temperature and mortality from stroke, but analysis on the effects on years of life lost (YLL) is limited.

What is added by this report?

YLLs were used as the health outcome, and cold and hot weather were found to be significantly associated with an increase in YLLs from stroke and for different groups, with a stronger effect found to be associated with low temperature.

What are the implications for public health practice?

These findings could help identify vulnerable regions and populations that have a more serious temperature-related burden and to guide the practical and effective measures for stroke control from a YLL perspective.

Keywords: stroke; temperature; years of life lost.

Copyright and License information: Editorial Office of CCDCW, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention 2021.

Grants and funding

The National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFA0606200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82041021), and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-006371)