Incidence of Myocardial Infarction With Shifts to and From Daylight Savings Time

Jiddou, Monica; Pica, Mark; Boura, Judy; Qu, Lihua; Franklin, Barry A.

doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.11.010

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“…In addition to other positive health effects such as reduced coronary mortality, lower blood pressure and improved memory [39]- [41], our analysis suggests that positive health effects during heat-waves should also be expected. From a public health policy perspective, these results add to the literature arguing in favor of abandoning daylight savings time, at least for France [42]- [44]. From the perspective of heat-wave impacts, the ã 2016.…”

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confidence: 56%

Behavioral adaptation to heat-related health risks in cities

Hendel

Azos-Diaz

Tréméac

2017

Energy and Buildings

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Heat-related mortality is of growing concern for cities faced with the combined effects of increasing heatwave frequency and intensity and stronger urban heat islands (UHI). In cities around the world, high air temperatures have been found to have strong repercussions in terms of heat-related mortality for populations aged 65 years and older, especially nighttime temperatures. In response, many measures have been proposed to counteract the effects of UHI such as cool roofs and materials or urban greening. While these approaches are promising and are rightfully explored, behavioral adaptation measures have not received as much attention. Given the importance of nighttime temperatures on heat-wave mortality and the importance of sleep quality for individuals to recover from intense daytime heat exposure, adapting sleeping habits to reduce sleep time exposure to intense heat may help reduce the health impacts of heat-waves. In this paper, outdoor and indoor temperature measurements conducted over the summer of 2015 in the bedrooms of two apartments in Paris, France are analyzed. The potential for this kind of behavioral adaptation to reduce occupant exposure to high sleep time temperatures is quantified and discussed. The policy implications of our findings and their practicality are also mentioned.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 56%

Behavioral adaptation to heat-related health risks in cities

Hendel

Azos-Diaz

Tréméac

2017

Energy and Buildings

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“…1 In addition, several studies indicate that the transition in and out of DST causes disruptions in the circadian rhythm and adversely affects the duration and quality of sleep (Lahti et al, 2006;Kantermann et al, 2007), which in turn may have unintended negative side effects in various (economic) dimensions other than energy saving. These negative short term effects range from lower general well-being (Kountouris and Remoundou, 2014) and life satisfaction (Kuehnle and Wunder, 2016), decreases in stock market returns (Kamstra et al, 2000) and students' performance (Gaski and Sagarin, 2011) to higher risk of work injuries (Barnes and Wagner, 2009;Lahti et al, 2011), acute myocardial infarction (Janszky and Ljung, 2008;Jiddou et al, 2013;Toro et al, 2015), suicides (Berk et al, 2008) and fatal road accidents (Varughese and Allen, 2001;Sullivan and Flannagan, 2002;Sood and Ghosh, 2007;Smith, 2016). 2 While this literature provides evidence in favour of abolishing the yearly ritual of changing the clocks twice, at least from a short term perspective, it is less clear for which time regime -DST or standard winter time -a society eventually should opt for.…”

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confidence: 99%

Spring Forward, Don't Fall Back: The Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Road Safety

Bünnings

Schiele

2021

Review of Economics and Statistics

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In this paper, we analyze the effect of light conditions on road accidents and estimate the long run consequences of different time regimes for road safety. Identification is based on variation in light conditions induced by differences in sunrise and sunset times across space and time. We estimate that darkness causes annual costs of more than £500 million in Great Britain. By setting daylight saving time year-round 8 percent of these costs could be saved. Thus, focusing solely on the short run costs related to the transition itself underestimates the total costs of the current time regime.

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“…Changing from summer time to winter time (and vice versa) has different effects on CVE incidence in different populations and countries. While this DST event had increased the incidence of CVE in some European countries, it had no significant effect in the USA . Our first author's unpublished data also showed no effect of DST on CVE in Turkish people.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…While this DST event had increased the incidence of CVE in some European countries, it had no significant effect in the USA. [11][12][13] Our first author's unpublished data also showed no effect of DST on CVE in Turkish people. Our current study's results should be interpreted cautiously and accordingly by other researches or authorities.…”

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confidence: 92%

Early effect of the fear of terrorism on a hospital's emergency department use and on the incidence of cardiovascular events: A Turkish multicenter study

Hurşitoğlu

Erdal

Akdeniz

et al. 2019

Health Planning & Management

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Summary Background To our knowledge, the early effect of the fear caused by terrorism on human health, especially its effect on the number of visits to medical emergency departments (EDs), has not yet been studied. Objectives To observe the effect of fear from terrorist alerts on the use of EDs and on the rate of cardiovascular (CV) and/or cerebrovascular events. Setting In Istanbul, Turkey, there was a terror alert on the weekend of 19 and 20 March 2016. In this multicenter retrospective study, we compared the data of patients from that weekend with those from the preceding and following weekends. Patients A total of 12 324 adult patients' records were included in this study: 4562 patients in the first weekend, 3627 patients in the second, terror alert weekend, and 4135 patients in the third weekend. Measurements The ED, CV, and cerebrovascular incidence rates of the above three groups were compared. Results The rate of ED use was the least in the weekend of the terror alert; the highest rate occurred during the weekend prior to it (female applications decreased more [P = 0.03]). The medical center that was the farthest from the crowded central places of the city and from the place where suicide bombing occurred was less affected by the decrease in use. Conclusions Fear associated with terrorism may affect human health indirectly by preventing patients from reaching the necessary emergency healthcare facilities. This finding may be a pathfinder to decision‐makers in such extraordinary emergency conditions. Further studies are needed in this field.

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Incidence of Myocardial Infarction With Shifts to and From Daylight Savings Time

Cited by 65 publications

References 17 publications

Behavioral adaptation to heat-related health risks in cities

Behavioral adaptation to heat-related health risks in cities

Spring Forward, Don't Fall Back: The Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Road Safety

Early effect of the fear of terrorism on a hospital's emergency department use and on the incidence of cardiovascular events: A Turkish multicenter study

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