Table 2

 Percentage change in age and sex standardised event rates per 100000 attributable to a one degree increase in temperature and one per cent increase in humidity*

MONICA populationModel AModel B
TemperatureTemperatureHumidity
Change95% CIChange95% CIChange95% CI
*Estimates from a distributed lag model using the current and previous three days. Daily humidity was not available in all populations. †Random effects meta-regression for a population with an average temperature of 10°C and an average humidity of 75%.
N Sweden−0.3−0.6, −0.1−0.3−0.8, 0.10.1−0.3, 0.4
N Karelia−0.0−0.4, 0.3−0.2−0.6, 0.2−0.2−0.4, 0.0
Kuopio−0.1−0.4, 0.2−0.1−0.5, 0.2−0.1−0.4, 0.2
Iceland0.0−0.8, 0.8−0.9−2.6, 0.8−0.0−1.1, 1.1
Moscow−0.5−0.8, −0.2−0.8−1.3, −0.3−0.4−0.9, 0.1
Turku/Loimaa−0.4−0.8, 0.1−0.7−1.2, −0.1−0.3−0.7, 0.1
Halifax−0.7−1.1, −0.2....
Kaunas−0.6−1.1, −0.2−1.4−2.4, −0.5−0.1−0.9, 0.6
Gothenburg−1.1−1.6, −0.5−1.3−2.4, −0.2−0.4−1.1, 0.3
Augsburg−0.2−0.7, 0.3−0.0−0.9, 0.90.1−0.6, 0.7
Bremen−0.6−1.2, −0.1....
Belfast−2.3−3.0, −1.6....
Czech Republic−0.6−1.1, −0.0−1.0−1.7, −0.3−0.5−1.0, 0.0
Vaud/Fribourg−0.4−1.4, 0.7−0.3−1.5, 0.90.1−0.9, 1.0
E Germany−0.4−0.8, 0.0−0.3−1.0, 0.40.2−0.4, 0.7
Ghent and Charleroi−0.9−1.5, −0.4−1.8−3.0, −0.6−0.4−1.0, 0.3
Strasbourg−0.6−1.0, −0.2−0.3−1.0, 0.50.3−0.2, 0.8
Beijing−0.6−1.1, −0.1....
Area Brianza−1.1−1.6, −0.6−1.1−1.7, −0.6−0.0−0.4, 0.4
Friuli−0.7−1.2, −0.1−0.7−1.2, −0.10.1−0.4, 0.5
Toulouse−0.7−1.2, −0.2−1.1−1.9, −0.4−0.1−0.5, 0.3
Stanford−0.4−1.2, 0.4....
Catalonia−1.2−1.7, −0.7−1.1−1.7, −0.60.1−0.3, 0.5
Newcastle−1.3−2.4, −0.2....
Meta-regression†−0.7−1.0, −0.4−0.8−1.2, −0.40.1−0.2, 0.4