Geographical Variations of the Minimum Mortality Temperature at a Global Scale: A Multicountry Study.
Geographical Variations of the Minimum Mortality Temperature at a Global Scale: A Multicountry Study.
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10.1097/ee9.0000000000000169
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2021-10
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Gasparrini A
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Tobías A;Hashizume M;Honda Y;Sera F;Ng CFS;Kim Y;Roye D;Chung Y;Dang TN;Kim H;Lee W;Íñiguez C;Vicedo-Cabrera A;Abrutzky R;Guo Y;Tong S;Coelho MSZS;Saldiva PHN;Lavigne E;Correa PM;Ortega NV;Kan H;Osorio S;Kyselý J;Urban A;Orru H;Indermitte E;Jaakkola JJK;Ryti NRI;Pascal M;Huber V;Schneider A;Katsouyanni K;Analitis A;Entezari A;Mayvaneh F;Goodman P;Zeka A;Michelozzi P;de'Donato F;Alahmad B;Diaz MH;De la Cruz Valencia C;Overcenco A;Houthuijs D;Ameling C;Rao S;Di Ruscio F;Carrasco G;Seposo X;Nunes B;Madureira J;Holobaca IH;Scovronick N;Acquaotta F;Forsberg B;Åström C;Ragettli MS;Guo YL;Chen BY;Li S;Colistro V;Zanobetti A;Schwartz J;Dung DV;Armstrong B;Gasparrini A
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Minimum mortality temperature (MMT) is an important indicator to assess the temperature-mortality association, indicating long-term adaptation to local climate. Limited evidence about the geographical variability of the MMT is available at a global scale. We collected data from 658 communities in 43 countries under different climates. We estimated temperature-mortality associations to derive the MMT for each community using Poisson regression with distributed lag nonlinear models. We investigated the variation in MMT by climatic zone using a mixed-effects meta-analysis and explored the association with climatic and socioeconomic indicators. The geographical distribution of MMTs varied considerably by country between 14.2 and 31.1 °C decreasing by latitude. For climatic zones, the MMTs increased from alpine (13.0 °C) to continental (19.3 °C), temperate (21.7 °C), arid (24.5 °C), and tropical (26.5 °C). The MMT percentiles (MMTPs) corresponding to the MMTs decreased from temperate (79.5th) to continental (75.4th), arid (68.0th), tropical (58.5th), and alpine (41.4th). The MMTs indreased by 0.8 °C for a 1 °C rise in a community’s annual mean temperature, and by 1 °C for a 1 °C rise in its SD. While the MMTP decreased by 0.3 centile points for a 1 °C rise in a community’s annual mean temperature and by 1.3 for a 1 °C rise in its SD. The geographical distribution of the MMTs and MMTPs is driven mainly by the mean annual temperature, which seems to be a valuable indicator of overall adaptation across populations. Our results suggest that populations have adapted to the average temperature, although there is still more room for adaptation.