title: Weather conditions and their effect on the increase of the risk of type A acute aortic dissection onset in Berlin.
abstract: In this study, a minimum distance classification and forward feature selection technique are joined to determine the relationship between weather conditions and the increase of the risk of type A acute aortic dissection (AAD) events in Berlin. The results demonstrate that changes in the amount of cloudiness and air temperature are the most representative weather predictors among the studied parameters. A discrimination surface was developed for the prediction of AAD events 6 h ahead, and it is found that, under a specific amount of cloudiness and air temperature, the risk of AAD events in Berlin increases about 20 %.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Meteorologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, 12165, Berlin, Germany. hamid.taheri@met.fu-berlin.de.|Remote Sensing Research Center, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. hamid.taheri@met.fu-berlin.de.
authors.forename: Hamid
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Taheri Shahraiyni
authors.affiliation: Institut für Meteorologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, 12165, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Sahar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sodoudi
authors.affiliation: Institut für Meteorologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, 12165, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Cubasch
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001604:Berlin / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D014887:Weather
keywords: Air temperature; Berlin; Cloudiness; Supervised classification technique; Type A acute aortic dissection; Weather predictors