WE-STORM

Project Name: Weather-based Stroke Event and Outcome Risk Modeling

Project Category: data use project

Heads of Project:

• Dr. med. Máté E. Maros MSc (University Medical Centre Mannheim)
• PD Dr. med. Florian Rakers (for the Jena University Hospital)

Duration and Status: 1.3.2022 – 30.11.2022, data use completed

Data Types Provided: treatment case data, diagnoses, procedures, laboratory observations, and medication data

Abstract:
Heat waves are known to lead to an increase in hospital admissions. The present project aims to investigate how great the influence of heat is on a person's risk of stroke. For this purpose, the first step is to determine a baseline risk that patients have in general and depending on their health status. The second step is to determine how much the risk of stroke increases as a result of a heat wave in a region. For this purpose, regional data from the German Meteorological Service are used and analyzed together with data on admissions with a diagnosis of stroke from many participating university hospitals.

Link: project description at the German Portal for Medical Research Data