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Study reveals increased hospitalization rates in older adults following tropical cyclones – News-Medical.Net
An increase in overall hospitalizations was reported for older adults in the week following exposure to a tropical cyclone, according to a new study by researchers…
An increase in overall hospitalizations was reported for older adults in the week following exposure to a tropical cyclone, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University’s Earth Institute and colleagues at Colorado State University and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
The researchers used data over 16 years on 70 million Medicare hospitalizations and a comprehensive database of county-level local winds associated with…
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