Reduced cognitive function during a heat wave among residents of non-air-conditioned buildings: An observational study of young adults in the summer of 2016

Jose Guillermo Cedeño Laurent; Augusta Williams; Youssef Oulhote; Antonella Zanobetti; Joseph G. Allen; John D. Spengler

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002605

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Reduced cognitive function during a heat wave among residents of non-air-conditioned buildings: An observational study of young adults in the summer of 2016

Jose Guillermo Cedeño Laurent ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: memocedeno@mail.harvard.edu

Affiliation Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Augusta Williams,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1496-8931

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Youssef Oulhote,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Antonella Zanobetti,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Joseph G. Allen,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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John D. Spengler

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Reduced cognitive function during a heat wave among residents of non-air-conditioned buildings: An observational study of young adults in the summer of 2016

Jose Guillermo Cedeño Laurent,
Augusta Williams,
Youssef Oulhote,
Antonella Zanobetti,
Joseph G. Allen,
John D. Spengler

Published: July 10, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002605

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