Excess mortality among the elderly in European countries, December 2014 to February 2015

作者：Kåre Mølbak, Laura Espenhain, Jens Nielsen, Katrien Tersago, Nathalie Bossuyt, Gleb Denissov, Aleksei Baburin, Mikko Virtanen, Anne Fouillet, Theologia Sideroglou, Kassiani Gkolfinopoulou, Anna Páldy, J. Bobvos, Liselotte van Asten, M de Lange, Baltazar Nunes, Susana Pereira Silva, Amparo Larrauri, Inmaculada León Gómez, Achilleas Tsoumanis, Christoph Junker, H Green, Richard Pebody, Jim McMenamin, Arlene Reynolds, A Mazick · 发表于：Eurosurveillance · 年份：2015 · DOI：10.2807/1560-7917.es2015.20.11.21065 · 被引用次数：88 · 研究领域：Global Health Care Issues、Climate Change and Health Impacts、Health disparities and outcomes

Since December 2014 and up to February 2015, the weekly number of excess deaths from all-causes among individuals?≥?65 years of age in 14 European countries have been significantly higher than in the four previous winter seasons. The rise in unspecified excess mortality coincides with increased proportion of influenza detection in the European influenza surveillance schemes with a main predominance of influenza A(H3N2) viruses seen throughout Europe in the current season, though cold snaps and other respiratory infections may also have had an effect.