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Keep me logged in OPENATHENS/SHIBBOLETH » * Submit your article * * * * HomeStrokeAhead of PrintExtreme Temperatures and Stroke Mortality: Evidence From a Multi-Country Analysis No AccessResearch Article Request Access * About * Figures * References * Related * Details * View PDF * View PDF * Sections * Supplemental Material * Abstract * Footnotes * eLetters Tools * Add to favorites * Download citations * Track citations * Permissions * Download Articles + Supplements Share Share on * Facebook * Twitter * Linked In * Mendeley * Reddit JUMP TO * Abstract * Footnotes * eLetters * Supplemental Material No AccessResearch Article Request Access EXTREME TEMPERATURES AND STROKE MORTALITY: EVIDENCE FROM A MULTI-COUNTRY ANALYSIS * Barrak Alahmad , * Haitham Khraishah , * Meghana Kamineni , * Dominic Royé , * Stefania I. Papatheodorou , * Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera , * Yuming Guo , * Eric Lavigne , * Ben Armstrong , * Francesco Sera , * Aaron S. Bernstein , * Antonella Zanobetti , * Eric Garshick , * Joel Schwartz , * Michelle L. Bell , * Fahd Al-Mulla , * Petros Koutrakis and * Antonio Gasparrini Barrak Alahmad Barrak Alahmad Correspondence to: Barrak Alahmad, MD, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 401 Park Dr, 4th floor, Room 412G, Boston, MA 02115. Email E-mail Address: balahmad@hsph.harvard.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9523-9537 Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. (B.A., A.S.B., A.Z., J.S., P.K.) Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait City, Kuwait (B.A., F.A.-M.). Search for more papers by this author , Haitham Khraishah Haitham Khraishah https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0003-5089 Cardiology Division, University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore (H.K.). Search for more papers by this author , Meghana Kamineni Meghana Kamineni https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6698-5151 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (M.K.). Search for more papers by this author , Dominic Royé Dominic Royé https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5516-6396 Climate Research Foundation, Madrid, Spain (D.R.). CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain (D.R.). Search for more papers by this author , Stefania I. Papatheodorou Stefania I. Papatheodorou https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9451-9094 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. (S.I.P.) Search for more papers by this author , Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland. (A.M.V.-C.) Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland. (A.M.V.-C.) Search for more papers by this author , Yuming Guo Yuming Guo Climate, Air Quality Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (Y.G.). Search for more papers by this author , Eric Lavigne Eric Lavigne https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6146-9839 School of Epidemiology & Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada (E.L.). Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa (E.L.). Search for more papers by this author , Ben Armstrong Ben Armstrong https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4407-0409 Department of Public Health Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. (B.A.) Search for more papers by this author , Francesco Sera Francesco Sera https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8890-6848 Department of Statistics, Computer Science and Applications G. Parenti, University of Florence, Italy (F.S.). Search for more papers by this author , Aaron S. Bernstein Aaron S. Bernstein https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1703-1041 Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. (B.A., A.S.B., A.Z., J.S., P.K.) Search for more papers by this author , Antonella Zanobetti Antonella Zanobetti https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8170-4736 Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. (B.A., A.S.B., A.Z., J.S., P.K.) Search for more papers by this author , Eric Garshick Eric Garshick https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5931-5638 Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine Section, Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA (E.G.). Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (E.G.). Search for more papers by this author , Joel Schwartz Joel Schwartz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6168-378X Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. (B.A., A.S.B., A.Z., J.S., P.K.) Search for more papers by this author , Michelle L. Bell Michelle L. Bell https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3965-1359 School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT (M.L.B.). Search for more papers by this author , Fahd Al-Mulla Fahd Al-Mulla Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait City, Kuwait (B.A., F.A.-M.). Search for more papers by this author , Petros Koutrakis Petros Koutrakis Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. (B.A., A.S.B., A.Z., J.S., P.K.) Search for more papers by this author and Antonio Gasparrini Antonio Gasparrini https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2271-3568 Environment & Health Modelling (EHM) Lab, Department of Public Health Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. (A.G.) Search for more papers by this author and Multi-Country Multi-City (MCC) Network Originally published22 May 2024https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.045751Stroke. 2024;0 ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Extreme temperatures contribute significantly to global mortality. While previous studies on temperature and stroke-specific outcomes presented conflicting results, these studies were predominantly limited to single-city or single-country analyses. Their findings are difficult to synthesize due to variations in methodologies and exposure definitions. METHODS: Within the Multi-Country Multi-City Network, we built a new mortality database for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. Applying a unified analysis protocol, we conducted a multinational case-crossover study on the relationship between extreme temperatures and stroke. In the first stage, we fitted a conditional quasi-Poisson regression for daily mortality counts with distributed lag nonlinear models for temperature exposure separately for each city. In the second stage, the cumulative risk from each city was pooled using mixed-effect meta-analyses, accounting for clustering of cities with similar features. We compared temperature-stroke associations across country-level gross domestic product per capita. We computed excess deaths in each city that are attributable to the 2.5% hottest and coldest of days based on each city’s temperature distribution. RESULTS: We collected data for a total of 3 443 969 ischemic strokes and 2 454 267 hemorrhagic stroke deaths from 522 cities in 25 countries. For every 1000 ischemic stroke deaths, we found that extreme cold and hot days contributed 9.1 (95% empirical CI, 8.6–9.4) and 2.2 (95% empirical CI, 1.9–2.4) excess deaths, respectively. For every 1000 hemorrhagic stroke deaths, extreme cold and hot days contributed 11.2 (95% empirical CI, 10.9–11.4) and 0.7 (95% empirical CI, 0.5–0.8) excess deaths, respectively. We found that countries with low gross domestic product per capita were at higher risk of heat-related hemorrhagic stroke mortality than countries with high gross domestic product per capita (P=0.02). CONCLUSIONS: Both extreme cold and hot temperatures are associated with an increased risk of dying from ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. As climate change continues to exacerbate these extreme temperatures, interventional strategies are needed to mitigate impacts on stroke mortality, particularly in low-income countries. * Download figure * Download PowerPoint FOOTNOTES For Sources of Funding and Disclosures, see page XXX. *A list of all Multi-Country Multi-City (MCC) Network group authors is given in the Appendix. Supplemental Material is available at https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.045751. Correspondence to: Barrak Alahmad, MD, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 401 Park Dr, 4th floor, Room 412G, Boston, MA 02115. Email balahmad@hsph.harvard.edu ELETTERS eLetters should relate to an article recently published in the journal and are not a forum for providing unpublished data. Comments are reviewed for appropriate use of tone and language. 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