Figure 1.
Location of the Sydney Statistical Division.
Table 1.
Summary of hospital admissions by selected diseases between July 1st 1991 and June 30th 2009 in the Sydney Statistical Division.
Table 2.
Average of temperature, humidity and air pollutants on days that were equal to or above the 95th and 99th percentile of daily average temperature distribution in the Sydney Statistical Division between July 1st, 1991 and June 30th, 2009.
Table 3.
Odds ratios (adjusted for relative humidity, O3 and PM10) comparing hospital admissions due to several specific diseases between extremely hot days and control days in the Sydney Statistical Division between July 1st, 1991 and June 30th, 2009.
Figure 2.
Odds ratios (adjusted for relative humidity, O3 and PM10) comparing hospital admissions due to several specific diseases between extremely hot days and control days in the Sydney Statistical Division between July 1st, 1991 and June 30th, 2009; on a hot day and 1, 2, and 3 days after the hot day at the 95th percentile of average temperature (results shown after the FDR adjustment). Note: the x-axis scale for admissions on hot days is different.
Figure 3.
Odds ratios (adjusted for relative humidity, O3 and PM10) comparing hospital admissions due to several specific diseases between extremely hot days and control days in the Sydney Statistical Division between July 1st, 1991 and June 30th, 2009; on a hot day and 1, 2, and 3 days after the hot day at the 99th percentile of average temperature (results shown after the FDR adjustment). Note: the x-axis scale for admissions on hot days is different.