Figure 27: Excessdeathrates in relation to indoortemperature Risk of deathrelative to summer minimum I Jan I April I July 3I Oct coldest 25% of homes warmest 25% of homes 3I Dec ... in the coldest homes are 1.5 times more likely to die. There is a ‘gap’ in these deathrates ... made for the top and bottom quarters of the distribution of predicted indoor (hall) temperatures at standard conditions with an outside temperature of 5˚c. The estimates used
Relative risk of death in relation to indoortemperature Risk of deathrelative to summer minimum coldest 25% of homes warmest 25% of homes I Jan I April I July 3I Oct 3I Dec ... Over half of excess winter deaths in England 11 are caused by cardiovascular ... that cold housing contributes to deaths from respiratory problems in winter, and exposure to outdoor cold contributes to deaths from arterial thrombosis (such as heart
temperatures and thus to cold relateddeaths. ... Excess Winter Deaths is defined as the number by which the mortalityrate for the period December to March exceeds that of other months of the year. The numbers of Excess Winter Deaths may be found in the table below for both the whole of England ... year in Britain there are between 20, 000 and 60, 000 excess winter deaths. Many
of disease in the population. England has a higher excess winter mortalityrate ... During 2006/08 the numbers of excess winter deaths in Hampshire were relatively few ... In general, the rate of excess winter deaths in Hampshire was similar to the national
between excess winter deaths and low indoortemperatures (Wilkinson et al, 2001). Over the last 50 years excess winter mortality (EWM) has been falling in England and Wales ... be ascertained through excess winter deaths; although fuel poverty is not the only cause ... Excess Winter Mortality in Westminster: 1997- 2007 Number of excess winter deaths Year
an average indoortemperature of 21.1°C and 48.8% relative humidity while the higher moisture excess scenario had an average indoortemperature of 22.2°C and 53.3% relative ... and can now be compared to the 2.5 years measurements. The temperature and relative
the demonstration of a much higher rate of heat-induced mortality in sedentary than in trained ... as overall efficiency declines and the relative metabolic heat load increases. Physical ... of the cardiovascular system and reducing the amount of excess body fat, but also by reducing
relateddeaths and 739 excessdeaths (4). An epidemiologic investigation of the heat ... (7). During 1979–1999, rates for heat-relateddeaths increased with age (Figure 2). ... 2. Average annual rate* of heat-relateddeaths attributed to weather conditions
relativemortalityrate 20 degree C 30 Figure 3.2 Monthly mean excessmortality as a function of temperature. The mortality at 24oC is set equal to 1. ... is to compare death statistics with the average monthly temperatures. Weihe (1986) refers to a study of Sakamoto-Moniyama who correlated monthly mortalityrates from cerebrovascular diseases with mean monthly temperatures for a number of countries. The death
Figure 11 provides a comparison of the probability of measured indoortemperature and relative humidity for the three surveys. The Carmacks YT surveyed houses experienced atypically poor temperature control indoors (Figure 11) due to the absence