Number of excess deaths during winter is large
- 13 January 1996
- Vol. 312 (7023) , 124
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7023.124b
Abstract
EDITOR,—In discussing the incidence of hypothermia L J Hislop and colleagues touch on the larger issue of excess deaths in winter.1 Research in many countries has confirmed this phenomenon,2 3 4 which can be ascribed only in part to hypothermia itself and the effects of influenza and other …Keywords
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