Climate change is elevating nighttime and daytime temperatures worldwide, affecting a
broad continuum of behavioral and health outcomes. Disturbed sleep is a plausible pathway …

Over 70,000 excess deaths occurred in Europe during the summer of 2003. The resulting
societal awareness led to the design and implementation of adaptation strategies to protect …

Classical risk factors only partially account for variations in cardiovascular disease
incidence; therefore, also other so far unknown features, among which meteorological …

Background Europe has emerged as a major climate change hotspot, both in terms of an
increase in seasonal averages and climate extremes. Projections of temperature-attributable …

Background Climate change driven by human activities has increased annual temperatures
in Spain by around 1° C since 1980. However, little is known regarding the extent to which …

Urban heat islands (UHIs) have become an especially relevant phenomenon as a
consequence of global warming and the growing proportion of people living in cities. The …

Today the most substantial threats facing cities relate to the impacts of climate change.
Extreme temperature such as heat waves and the occurrence of Urban Heat Island (UHI) …

Background: Minimum mortality temperature (MMT) is an important indicator to assess the
temperature-mortality association, indicating long-term adaptation to local climate. Limited …

Background Previous studies focusing on urban, industrialised regions have found that
excess heat exposure can increase all-cause mortality, heat-related illnesses, and …

Background Daily time-series regression models are commonly used to estimate the lagged
nonlinear relation between temperature and mortality. A major impediment to this type of …