2023 journal article

Prescribed fires, smoke exposure, and hospital utilization among heart failure patients

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, 22(1).

By: H. Raab*, J. Moyer*, S. Afrin n, F. Garcia-Menendez n & C. Ward-Caviness*

author keywords: Prescribed fires; Smoke exposure; Hospitalizations; Heart failure
TL;DR: Ass associations between residing near a prescribed fire, wildfire smoke exposure, and heart failure patients’ hospital utilization are investigated and area-level smoke exposure driven by wildfires is positively associated with hospital utilization but not proximity to prescribed fires. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: January 2, 2024

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