Temperature, temperature extremes, and mortality: a study of acclimatisation and effect modification in 50 US cities.

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Published in Occup Environ Med on June 28, 2007

Authors

M Medina-Ramón1, J Schwartz

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1: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA. mmedinar@hsph.harvard.edu

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