Power outage mediates the associations between major storms and hospital admission of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Main Authors: Yanji Qu (Author), Wangjian Zhang (Author), Bo Ye (Author), Samantha Penta (Author), Guanghui Dong (Author), Xiaoqing Liu (Author), Shao Lin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third-leading cause of death worldwide with continuous rise. Limited studies indicate that COPD was associated with major storms and related power outages (PO). However, significant gaps remain in understanding what PO's ro...