Heat effects on mortality in 15 European cities

M Baccini, A Biggeri, G Accetta, T Kosatsky… - …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Background: Epidemiologic studies show that high temperatures are related to mortality, but
little is known about the exposure-response function and the lagged effect of heat. We report …

Childhood exposure to ambient air pollutants and the onset of asthma: an administrative cohort study in Québec

…, M Fournier, A Brand, T Kosatsky… - Environmental …, 2016 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Although it is well established that air pollutants can exacerbate asthma, the
link with new asthma onset in children is less clear. Objective: We assessed the association …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of summer heat on urban population mortality in Europe during the 1990s: an evaluation of years of life lost adjusted for harvesting

M Baccini, T Kosatsky, A Biggeri - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Efforts to prevent and respond to heat-related illness would benefit by quantifying
the impact of summer heat on acute population mortality. We estimated years of life lost …

Risk of asthmatic episodes in children exposed to sulfur dioxide stack emissions from a refinery point source in Montreal, Canada

A Smargiassi, T Kosatsky, J Hicks… - Environmental …, 2009 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background Little is known about the respiratory effects of short-term exposures to petroleum
refinery emissions in young children. This study is an extension of an ecologic study that …

[HTML][HTML] An outbreak of toxic encephalopathy caused by eating mussels contaminated with domoic acid

TM Perl, L Bédard, T Kosatsky, JC Hockin… - … England Journal of …, 1990 - Mass Medical Soc
In Canada in late 1987 there was an outbreak of an acute illness characterized by
gastrointestinal symptoms and unusual neurologic abnormalities among persons who had eaten …

Health effects of hot weather: from awareness of risk factors to effective health protection

S Hajat, M O'Connor, T Kosatsky - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Because of the increasing concerns about climate change and deadly heatwaves in the past,
the health effects of hot weather are fast becoming a global public health challenge for the …

Impact of high temperatures on mortality: is there an added heat wave effect?

…, L Bisanti, A Russo, A Paldy, B Menne, T Kosatsky - …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Background: Mortality during sustained periods of hot weather is generally regarded as
being in excess of what would be predicted from smooth temperature-mortality gradients …

[HTML][HTML] A population-based birth cohort study of the association between childhood-onset asthma and exposure to industrial air pollutant emissions

…, P Gamache, M Fournier, A Brand, T Kosatsky… - Environment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Studies of the association between air pollution and asthma onset have mostly
focused on urban and traffic-related air pollution. We investigated the associations between …

[HTML][HTML] The 2003 European heat waves

T Kosatsky - Eurosurveillance, 2005 - eurosurveillance.org
The current issue of Eurosurveillance updates and provides additional context to the report
in early 2004 of an estimated 22 080 excess deaths in England and Wales, France, Italy and …

[HTML][HTML] Severe and moderate asthma exacerbations in asthmatic children and exposure to ambient air pollutants

…, P Gamache, M Fournier, A Brand, T Kosatsky… - International Journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Background: It is well established that short-term exposure to ambient air pollutants can
exacerbate asthma, the role of early life or long-term exposure is less clear. We assessed the …