BMC Public Health

Ambient cold exposure and myocardial infarction risk in Tianjin, China: a distributed lag non-linear analysis

Cohort study of 34,940 peoplePopulations

Abstract

Background Ambient temperature is an important environmental determinant of cardiovascular health. Although cold exposure has been associated with acute myocardial infarction (MI), evidence on delayed effects and subtype-specific differences remains limited in northern China.

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