Tropical cyclone and daily respiratory mortality across East Asia: a time series study

Cheng He; Renjie Chen; Ho Kim; Masahiro Hashizume; Whanhee Lee; Yasushi Honda; Satbyul Estella Kim; Yue Leon Guo; Alexandra Schneider; Wenzhen Ge; Yixiang Zhu; Lu Zhou; Haidong Kan

doi:10.1183/13993003.00546-2023

Tropical cyclone and daily respiratory mortality across East Asia: a time series study

Eur Respir J. 2023 Jul 20;62(1):2300546. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00546-2023. Print 2023 Jul.

Authors

Cheng He^{1

2

3}, Renjie Chen^{1

3}, Ho Kim⁴, Masahiro Hashizume⁵, Whanhee Lee⁶, Yasushi Honda^{7

8}, Satbyul Estella Kim^{7

8}, Yue Leon Guo⁹, Alexandra Schneider², Wenzhen Ge¹⁰, Yixiang Zhu¹, Lu Zhou¹, Haidong Kan^{11

12}

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Key Lab of Public Health Safety of the Ministry of Education and NHC Key Lab of Health Technology Assessment, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
² Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
³ These authors contributed equally to this work.
⁴ Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
⁶ Department of Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Institute of Ewha-SCL for Environmental Health, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁷ Center for Climate Change Adaptation, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan.
⁸ Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
⁹ Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, National Taiwan University (NTU) College of Medicine and NTU Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹⁰ Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY, USA.
¹¹ School of Public Health, Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Key Lab of Public Health Safety of the Ministry of Education and NHC Key Lab of Health Technology Assessment, Fudan University, Shanghai, China kanh@fudan.edu.cn.
¹² Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Center for Children's Health, Shanghai, China.

Abstract

This multi-country study offers crucial evidence on the associations between tropical cyclone exposure and heightened daily respiratory mortality in East Asia. Significant impacts were observed for pneumonia and COPD deaths, rather than asthma. https://bit.ly/42rCIqM

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Asia, Eastern / epidemiology
Cyclonic Storms*
Humans
Respiratory Tract Diseases*
Time Factors