Editing Hypothermia (section)

==Epidemiology==
Between 1995 and 2004 in the United States, an average of 1,560 cold-related emergency department visits occurred per year and in the years 1999 to 2004, an average of 647 people died per year due to hypothermia.<ref name="Baumgartner 2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Baumgartner EA, Belson M, Rubin C, Patel M | title = Hypothermia and other cold-related morbidity emergency department visits: United States, 1995-2004 | journal = Wilderness Environ Med | volume = 19 | issue = 4 | pages = 233–7 | date = 2008 | pmid = 19099327 | doi = 10.1580/07-WEME-OR-104.1 | s2cid = 27657065 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5615a3.htm#tab |title=Hypothermia-Related Mortality – Montana, 1999–2004 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424001921/http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5615a3.htm#tab |archive-date=2009-04-24 }}</ref> Of deaths reported between 1999 and 2002 in the US, 49% of those affected were 65 years or older and two-thirds were male.<ref name="BMJ Best Practice">{{Cite web|url=https://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-us/654/epidemiology|title=BMJ Best Practice|website=bestpractice.bmj.com|language=en-us|access-date=2018-11-15}}</ref> Most deaths were not work related (63%) and 23% of affected people were at home.<ref name="BMJ Best Practice" /> Hypothermia was most common during the autumn and winter months of October through March.<ref name="BMJ Best Practice" /> In the United Kingdom, an estimated 300 deaths per year are due to hypothermia, whereas the annual incidence of hypothermia-related deaths in Canada is 8,000.<ref name="BMJ Best Practice" />