Journal
LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH-WESTERN PACIFIC
Volume 24, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100493
Keywords
Non-optimal temperatures; Mortality Burden; China
Funding
- China National Key Research and Development Program [2018YFC1315300, 2018YFA0606200]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [42075173, 42175181]
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This study examines the mortality burden related to non-optimal temperatures across provinces in China, finding substantial regional variations in both cold- and heat-related mortality burden. Cold effects dominate the total mortality burden in all provinces.
Background Non-optimal temperatures are associated with mortality risk, yet the heterogeneity of temperatureattributable mortality burden across subnational regions in a country was rarely investigated. We estimated the mortality burden related to non-optimal temperatures across all provinces in China in 2019. Methods The global daily temperature data were obtained from the ERA5 reanalysis dataset. The daily mortality data and exposure-response curves between daily temperature and mortality for 176 individual causes of death were obtained from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (GBD 2019). We estimated the population attributable fraction (PAF) based on the exposure-response curves, daily gridded temperature, and population. We calculated the cause- and province-specific mortality burden based on PAF and disease burden data from the GBD 2019. Findings We estimated that 593.9 (95% UI:498.8, 704.6) thousand deaths were attributable to non-optimal temperatures in China in 2019 (PAF=5.58% [4.93%, 6.28%]), with 580.8 (485.7, 690.1) thousand cold-related deaths and 13.9 (7.7, 23.2) thousand heat-related deaths. The majority of temperature-related deaths were from cardiovascular diseases (399.7 [322.8, 490.4] thousand) and chronic respiratory diseases (177.4 [141.4, 222.3] thousand). The mortality burdens were observed significantly spatial heterogeneity for both high and low temperatures. For instance, the age-standardized death rates (per 100 000) attributable to low temperature were higher in Western China, with the highest in Tibet (113.7 [82.0, 155.5]), while for high temperature, they were greater in Xinjiang (1.8 [0.7, 3.3]) and Central-Southern China such as Hainan (2.5 [0.9, 5.4]). We also observed considerable geographical variation in the temperature-related mortality burden by causes of death at provincial level. Interpretation A substantial mortality burden was attributable to non-optimal temperatures across China, and cold effects dominated the total mortality burden in all provinces. Both cold- and heat-related mortality burden showed significantly spatial variations across China. Funding National Key Research and Development Program.
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