Seasonal variation in hospitalizations due to heart failure in Niterói city, Southeastern Brazil Variación estacional en las hospitalizaciones por insuficiencia cardiaca en Niteroi, Sureste de Brasil Variação sazonal nas hospitalizações por insuficiência cardíaca em Niterói, RJ

• Main Authors: Jose Eduardo Loureiro Jorge (Author), Mauricio Cagy (Author), Evandro Tinoco Mesquita (Author), Thiago L M da Costa (Author), Samuel Datum Moscavitch (Author), Maria Luiza Garcia Rosa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2009-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The objective of the study was to describe seasonality of hospitalizations for heart failure in tropical climate as it has been described in cold climates. Seasonal Auto-regressive Integrated Moving-Average model was applied to time-series data of heart failure hospitalizations between 1996 and 2004...