Resumen

RUMEL, Davi; RIEDEL, Lucia Ferreira; LATORRE, Maria do Rosario D. O.  y  DUNCAN, Bruce Bartholow. Miocardic infarcts and cerebral-vascular accidents associated with high temperature and carbon monoxide in an metropolitan area of Southeastern Brazil. Rev. Saúde Pública [online]. 1993, vol.27, n.1, pp. 15-22. ISSN 0034-8910.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89101993000100003.

Many studies have been published about the relationship between life style and genetic risk factors and stroke and heart attack, but there have been few about the relationship between atmospheric pollution, specifically with carbon monoxide, and temperature and stroke and heart attack. With a view to filling this gap the relationship between values of carbon monoxide concentration in the air, maximum and average by day, and maximum temperature by day and the number of new cases of CVA and IM admitted as emergencies at the biggest hospital complex of S. Paulo city was analysed. If was concluded, by the use of multivariable regression analysis, that 2.1% and 4.9% of heart attack admissions were due to carbon monoxide air pollution and high temperature, respectively. 2.8% of stroke admissions were due high temperature. Stroke and carbon monoxide were not associated in this population.

Palabras llave : Myocardial infarction [epidemiology]; Cerebrovascular disorders [epidemiology]; Heat [adverse effects]; Carbon monoxide [adverse effects].