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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2014 Sep 6;30:45–60. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.07.014

Table 3.

Mortality counts and hot days in New York City, 1997-2006.

Event Frequency
Average year-round natural cause deaths/day, all ages ≈ 145
Average warm-season natural-cause deaths/day for age 65+a ≈ 95 (95.5)
Average natural-cause deaths/day for age 65 + on very hot daysa,b ≈ 100 (100.3)
Total warm-season natural-cause deaths, 1997-2006, for New York City ≈ 150,000
Average by Community District for the warm season, 1997-2006 2531 (SD 1134)
a

Difference between the average warm-season and very hot day natural-cause deaths/day for age 65+ is significant at p-value=0.0015 (t-test for paired samples; t-observed value = –3.396).

b

Heat index ≥ 100 °F.