Table 5.

Effect size estimates and bootstrap-generated two-sided 95% confidence intervals for mediation effects of the association between daily maximum temperature and all-cause hospital admissions (ACHA) based on Lag 2- Lag 1 discrete-time model structure. Bold indicates statistically significant estimate at p < 0.05.

Estimate	Model 1: Temperature and confounders only	Model 2: Temperature, confounders, and SBP	Model 3: Temperature, confounders, and IDWG	Model 4: Temperature, confounders, IDWG, and SBP
Temperature β	0.0120	0.0123	0.0138	0.0139
Indirect Effect	–	−0.0003 (−0.0009, 0.0002)	−0.0019 (−0.0029, −0.0009)	−0.0019 (−0.0031, −0.0009)
Percent Mediated	–	−2.42%	−15.46%	−15.71%