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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Front Environ Sci. 2014 Feb 19;2:3. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2014.00003

Table 2 ∣.

Percent change in mortality risk for 1°C increase in daily mean temperature.

City Age group (Unit: %)
All-cause mortality Cardiovascular mortality Respiratory mortality
Seoul All ages 2.62 (1.20, 4.05) 1.17 (−1.41, 3.82) 0.51 (−5.28, 6.65)
Age ≥65 years 3.30 (1.47, 5.17) 0.08 (−2.74, 2.99) 2.55 (−3.85, 9.38)
Incheon All ages 2.80 (−0.02, 5.70) 8.57 (2.45, 15.06) 5.70 (−5.30, 17.97)
Age ≥65 years 2.96 (−0.74, 6.80) 12.48 (4.55, 21.01) 0.96 (−10.77, 14.22)
Daejeon All ages 0.14 (−4.81, 5.35) 10.66 (0.43, 21.92) 3.41 (−16.68, 28.33)
Age ≥65 years 1.36 (−5.22, 8.39) 11.31 (−1.28, 25.51) 5.75 (−15.72, 32.69)
Daegu All ages 3.48 (0.37, 6.67) 5.18 (−0.88, 11.60) 0.32 (−12.11, 14.50)
Age ≥65 years 5.76 (1.62, 10.06) 4.33 (−2.14, 11.23) −3.73 (−16.55, 11.06)
Gwangju All ages 2.50 (−1.96, 716) −2.08 (−11.47, 8.31) −5.87 (−24.4, 17.20)
Age ≥65 years 5.72 (−0.23, 12.01) −1.37 (−12.63, 11.34) −2.25 (−22.45, 23.20)
Busan All ages 3.02 (0.54, 5.55) 3.10 (−1.82, 8.26) 6.68 (−4.20, 18.80)
Age ≥65 years 2.68 (−0.31, 5.76) 4.97 (−0.63, 10.90) 7.52 (−4.31, 20.82)
Overall All ages 2.70 (1.67, 3.73) 3.81 (0.82, 6.89) 2.06 (−2.19, 6.50)
Age ≥65 years 3.44 (2.13, 4.76) 4.56 (0.40, 8.89) 2.35 (−2.28, 7.19)

We estimated the high temperature effects on mortality using generalized linear model with natural cubic splines based on same day temperature.