Table 1.
Daily number of hospital admissions for cardiorespiratory diseases during summer months (June–August) in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland, 2001–2017.
| Disease | All Ages | Age 18–64 | Age 65–74 | Age ≥ 75 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiovascular | Median | Min. | Max. | Median | Min. | Max. | Median | Min. | Max. | Median | Min. | Max. |
| All | 24 | 6 | 45 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 13 | 2 | 31 |
| MI 1 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| IHD 2 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| Cerebrovascular | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| Arrhythmia | 4 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| Respiratory | ||||||||||||
| All | 16 | 2 | 37 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 12 |
| Asthma | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| COPD 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Pneumonia | 5 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 15 |
1 Myocardial Infarction, 2 Ischemic Heart Disease, 3 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.