Seasonal Variation of Overall and Cardiovascular Mortality: A Study in 19 Countries from Different Geographic Locations

• Helena Marti-Soler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helena Marti-Soler, Semira Gonseth

  Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Semira Gonseth ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helena Marti-Soler, Semira Gonseth

  Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Cédric Gubelmann,

  Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Silvia Stringhini,

  Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Pascal Bovet,

  Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Pau-Chung Chen,

  Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, National Taiwan University College of Public Health, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Bogdan Wojtyniak,

  Affiliation National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland

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• Fred Paccaud,

  Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Dai-Hua Tsai,

  Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Tomasz Zdrojewski,

  Affiliation Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

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• Pedro Marques-Vidal

  * E-mail: Pedro-Manuel.Marques-Vidal@chuv.ch

  Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland, Department of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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