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AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Apr 5, 2007
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The Effect of the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago on All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality

Reinhard Kaiser, MD, MPH, Alain Le Tertre, PhD, Joel Schwartz, PhD, Carol A. Gotway, PhD, W. Randolph Daley, DVM, MPH and Carol H. Rubin, DVM, MPH

At the time of the study, Reinhard Kaiser, Carol A. Gotway, W. Randolph Daley, and Carol H. Rubin were with the Division for Emergency and Environmental Health Services, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. Alain Le Tertre is with the Information and Statistics Unit, Department of Environmental Health, National Institute of Public Health Surveillance, Saint Maurice, France. Joel Schwartz is with the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.


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FIGURE 1— Daily number of deaths and maximum temperature during the Chicago heat wave: June 22, 1995–August 10, 1995.

 

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FIGURE 2— Daily relative risk of death for all-cause mortality in the general population and among Blacks and Whites for a 50-day period during the Chicago heat wave: 1995.

 





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