Date of Award
1982
Embargo Period
8-1-2024
Document Type
Thesis
College
College of Health Professions
First Advisor
Kenneth J. Buhmeyer
Second Advisor
Donald G. Gregg
Abstract
Approximately fourteen hundred cardiac related calls were run by Greenville County Emergency Medical Service ambulance personnel in 1980. Four hundred seventy of these patients died. A study was undertaken to determine the relationship that heat and humidity had on these cardiac mortalities. Various statistical procedures utilized in the study indicate that of the sample studied, fewer deaths occurred in the hottest temperatures on the average day while the coldest temperatures produced the highest average daily death rate. Humidity studies showed that the higher the humidity, the lower the average daily death rate. High heat and high humidity shown in the combined form of the National Weather Service’s Discomfort Index indicated that as heat and humidity rise on the Discomfort Index Scale, the death rate also rises.
Recommended Citation
Browning, Patrick E., "A Study of the Relationship between Heat and Humidity and Cardiac Mortality" (1982). MUSC Theses and Dissertations. 173.
https://medica-musc.researchcommons.org/theses/173
Rights
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