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These estimates reflect estimated excess risks of mortality on heat wave days defined using HWD_Tavg (Table 1).

The major sources of uncertainty were the relative risk estimates for mortality on heat wave versus non heat wave days, the RCP scenarios, and the heat wave definitions.

RR – 1 is the attributable risk (AR) to heat waves (i.e., the increase in the risk of nonaccidental mortality on heat wave days compared with non heat wave days), and L is the length of the heat wave in days.

The major sources of uncertainty in our heat wave mortality projections were the RCP scenarios, the ARs of mortality on heat wave days compared with non heat wave days, and the criteria used to define heat waves.

Recently, the paper by Wu et al. (2014), "Estimation and Uncertainty Analysis of Impacts of Future Heat Waves on Mortality in the Eastern United States," concluded that "the major sources of uncertainty were the relative risk estimates for mortality on heat wave versus non heat wave days, the RCP scenarios, and the heat wave definitions".

We used the 95% confidence interval (CI) estimated by Anderson and Bell (2011) for the percentage increase in nonaccidental mortality on heat wave days compared with non heat waves days during 1987–2005 to define the ranges of possible AR values for counties in the Northeast (1.79 11.98%), the Midwest (3.36 7.93%), and the South (–0.11 to 3.84%).

With this alternate definition of duration of a heat wave, the overall estimated increase in mortality on heat-wave days compared with non-heat-wave days was 9.9%9595% CI: –2.2%, 23.5%).

This approach is similar to methods used in earlier studies to compare mortality risk on heat wave days with non-heat wave days (Anderson and Bell 2009; Hajat et al. 2006); however, our model extends the earlier method by allowing risk of mortality to differ by heat wave.

Moreover, although the implication of mortality displacement on heat-related mortality risk estimates would be attenuation, its possible effects on the corresponding temporal trend estimates is less clear and warrants further study.

Because the quantity we were interested in obtaining is the relative risk of mortality on a heat wave day versus that same day if it was not part of a heat wave, we considered only those days that have a potential to be heat wave days.

The model without the added heat wave effect (model 1) predicts higher mortality on non-heat wave days compared to the models that differentiate between heat wave and non-heat wave days (model 2 and 3).