Figure 2

Mean relative deviations of ischaemic heart disease mortality for 21-day sequences spanning 3 days before to 17 days after the onset of hot spells (a) and cold spells (b) for the whole population (M + F), males (M), females (F), younger population (0–64 years) and the elderly (65+ years). Solid (dashed) lines denote the 2.5% and 97.5% (5% and 95%) quantiles of deviations obtained by the Monte Carlo method.