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Vecellio DJ, Lagoa CM, Conroy DE. Physical Activity Dependence on Relative Temperature and Humidity Characteristics in a Young, Insufficiently Active Population: A Weather Typing Analysis. J Phys Act Health 2024; 21:357-364. [PMID: 38290496 DOI: 10.1123/jpah.2023-0438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) is an important contributor to one's physical and mental health both acutely and across the lifespan. Much research has done on the ambient environment's impact on PA; however, these studies have used absolute values of atmospheric measures such as temperature and humidity, which vary spatiotemporally and make comparisons between studies which differ in location or time of year difficult to square with one another. METHODS Here, we employ the Global Weather Type Classification, Version 2, to determine the combined impact of temperature and humidity on PA in a sample of insufficiently active young adults. We conducted secondary analyses of data from a single-group behavioral intervention trial that varied the number of digital messages sent daily. Young adults (n = 81) wore Fitbit Versa smartwatches for a 6-month period sometime between April 2019 and July 2020, and location was tracked using a custom smartphone application. RESULTS Mixed linear models indicated that, across 8179 person-days, PA was significantly lower on days with humid conditions and significantly higher on warm dry days, though the latter relationship was no longer significant when controlling for timing in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic declaration. Demographic factors did not affect the relationship between weather and PA. CONCLUSIONS Results are a first step in providing additional guidance for encouraging PA in insufficiently active individuals given forecasted daily weather conditions. Future work should examine seasonal variability in the weather type-PA relationship without the influence of a world-altering event influencing results.
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- Daniel J Vecellio
- Center for Healthy Aging, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Center for Healthy Aging, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
- Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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Zhao N, Pinault L, Toyib O, Vanos J, Tjepkema M, Cakmak S. Long-term ozone exposure and mortality from neurological diseases in Canada. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2021; 157:106817. [PMID: 34385046 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Revised: 07/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in the health effects of air pollution. However, the relationships between ozone exposure and mortality attributable to neurological diseases remain unclear. OBJECTIVES To assess associations of long-term exposure to ozone with death from Parkinson's disease, dementia, stroke, and multiple sclerosis. METHODS Our analyses were based on the 2001 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort. Census participants were linked with vital statistics records through 2016, resulting in a cohort of 3.5 million adults/51,045,700 person-years, with 8,500/51,300/43,300/1,300 deaths from Parkinson's/dementia/stroke/multiple sclerosis, respectively. Ten-year average ozone concentrations estimated by chemical transport models and adjusted by ground measurements were assigned to subjects based on postal codes. Cox proportional hazards models were used to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) for deaths from the four neurological diseases, adjusting for eight common demographic and socioeconomic factors, seven environmental indexes, and six contextual covariates. RESULTS The fully adjusted HRs for Parkinson's, dementia, stroke, and multiple sclerosis mortalities related to one interquartile range increase in ozone (10.1 ppb), were 1.09 (95% confidence interval 1.04-1.14), 1.08 (1.06-1.10), 1.06 (1.04-1.09), and 1.35 (1.20-1.51), respectively. The covariates did not influence significance of the ozone-mortality associations, except airshed (i.e., broad region of Canada). During the period of 2001-2016, 5.66%/5.01%/ 3.77%/19.11% of deaths from Parkinson's/dementia/stroke/multiple sclerosis, respectively, were attributable to ozone exposure. CONCLUSIONS We found positive associations between ozone exposure and mortality due to Parkinson's, dementia, stroke, and multiple sclerosis.
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- Naizhuo Zhao
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Health Stataistics Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Health Stataistics Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, AZ, USA
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- Health Stataistics Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Population Studies Division, Environmental Health Science & Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
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Hochman A, Alpert P, Negev M, Abdeen Z, Abdeen AM, Pinto JG, Levine H. The relationship between cyclonic weather regimes and seasonal influenza over the Eastern Mediterranean. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 750:141686. [PMID: 32861075 PMCID: PMC7422794 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Revised: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The prediction of the occurrence of infectious diseases is of crucial importance for public health, as clearly seen in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we analyze the relationship between the occurrence of a winter low-pressure weather regime - Cyprus Lows - and the seasonal Influenza in the Eastern Mediterranean. We find that the weekly occurrence of Cyprus Lows is significantly correlated with clinical seasonal Influenza in Israel in recent years (R = 0.91; p < .05). This result remains robust when considering a complementary analysis based on Google Trends data for Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. The weekly occurrence of Cyprus Lows precedes the onset and maximum of Influenza occurrence by about one to two weeks (R = 0.88; p < .05 for the maximum occurrence), and closely follows their timing in eight out of ten years (2008-2017). Since weather regimes such as Cyprus Lows are more robustly predicted in weather and climate models than individual climate variables, we conclude that the weather regime approach can be used to develop tools for estimating the compatibility of the transmission environment for Influenza occurrence in a warming world. Furthermore, this approach may be applied to other regions and climate sensitive diseases. This study is a new cross-border inter-disciplinary regional collaboration for appropriate adaptation to climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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- Assaf Hochman
- Department of Tropospheric Research, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein - Leopoldshafen 76344, Germany.
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- Department of Geophysics, Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel
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- School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel 3498838, Israel
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- Al-Quds Public Health Society and the Al-Quds Nutrition and Health Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine-Al-Quds University, Abu-Deis, Palestinian Authority
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- Al-Quds Public Health Society and the Al-Quds Nutrition and Health Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine-Al-Quds University, Abu-Deis, Palestinian Authority
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- Department of Tropospheric Research, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein - Leopoldshafen 76344, Germany
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- Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hadassah - Hebrew University, Jerusalem 9110202, Israel
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Fdez-Arroyabe P, Fornieles-Callejón J, Santurtún A, Szangolies L, Donner RV. Schumann resonance and cardiovascular hospital admission in the area of Granada, Spain: An event coincidence analysis approach. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 705:135813. [PMID: 31826805 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Revised: 11/21/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The study of bio-effects of Schumann resonances is a very complex issue. There is a need to identify mechanisms and pathways that explain how Extremely Low Frequency magnetic fields affect biology or human health. This particular study tries to identify statistical associations between ELF magnetic fields in the province of Granada (Spain) and cardiovascular related hospital admission in the same province for the period April, 1st 2013 to March, 31st 2014. Research is developed under an epidemiological approach based on an Event Coincidence Analysis statistical method. Clustered events, statistically significant (ECA shuffle-surrogate test p = .01 and p < .01), were found for the minimum values of the first and the third Schuman resonances frequency on east-west and north-south directions, and for the amplitude parameter of the second resonance and the total signal energy in the north-south direction. Empirical measurements of SR parameters were recorded at the Sierra Nevada Mountain in Granada province (Spain). Results show a clear coincidence of the events for the minima amplitudes of Shuman resonances and energy in the north-south orientation and the number of the cardiovascular related hospital admissions. Further research is needed with longer temporal series and a new approach based on gender seems to be also interesting for future studies.
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- Pablo Fdez-Arroyabe
- University of Cantabria, Department of Geography, Geobiomet Research Group, Santander, Spain.
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- University of Cantabria, Faculty of Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology Department, Geobiomet Research Group, Santander, Spain
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) - A Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) - A Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany; Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Department of Water, Environment, Construction and Safety, Magdeburg, Germany
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Particulate Matter Mortality Rates and Their Modification by Spatial Synoptic Classification. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2019; 16:ijerph16111904. [PMID: 31146484 PMCID: PMC6603550 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16111904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2019] [Revised: 05/27/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2019] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Air pollution levels are highly correlated with temperature or humidity, so we investigated the relationship between PM10 and the spatial synoptic classification (SSC) scheme on daily mortality, according to age group and season. Daily death data for 2000-2014 from Seoul, Korea, were acquired, and time-series analysis was applied with respect to season and to each of seven distinct SSC types: dry moderate (DM); dry polar (DP); dry tropical (DT); moist moderate (MM); moist polar (MP); moist tropical (MT); and transition (T). Modification effects were estimated for daily, non-accidental, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality between PM10 and SSC types. The following SSC-type-specific increased mortalities were observed, by cause of death: non-accidental mortality: DT (1.86%) and MT (1.86%); cardiovascular mortality: DT (2.83%) and MM (3.00%); respiratory mortality: MT (3.78%). Based on simplified weather types, increased PM10 effects in non-accidental mortality rates were observed in dry (1.54%) and moist (2.32%) conditions among those aged 40-59 years and were detected regardless of conditions in other age groups: 60-74 (1.11%), 75-84 (1.55%), and 85+ (1.75%). The effects of particulate air pollution, by SSC, suggest the applicability of SSC to the comparison and understanding of acute effects of daily mortality based on weather type.
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Association between Weather Types based on the Spatial Synoptic Classification and All-Cause Mortality in Sweden, 1991⁻2014. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2019; 16:ijerph16101696. [PMID: 31091805 PMCID: PMC6573000 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16101696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Revised: 05/03/2019] [Accepted: 05/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Much is known about the adverse health impact of high and low temperatures. The Spatial Synoptic Classification is a useful tool for assessing weather effects on health because it considers the combined effect of meteorological factors rather than temperature only. The aim of this study was to assess the association between oppressive weather types and daily total mortality in Sweden. Time-series Poisson regression with distributed lags was used to assess the relationship between oppressive weather (Dry Polar, Dry Tropical, Moist Polar, and Moist Tropical) and daily deaths over 14 days in the extended summer (May to September), and 28 days during the extended winter (November to March), from 1991 to 2014. Days not classified as oppressive weather served as the reference category. We computed relative risks with 95% confidence intervals, adjusting for trends and seasonality. Results of the southern (Skåne and Stockholm) and northern (Jämtland and Västerbotten) locations were pooled using meta-analysis for regional-level estimates. Analyses were performed using the dlnm and mvmeta packages in R. During summer, in the South, the Moist Tropical and Dry Tropical weather types increased the mortality at lag 0 through lag 3 and lag 6, respectively. Moist Polar weather was associated with mortality at longer lags. In the North, Dry Tropical weather increased the mortality at shorter lags. During winter, in the South, Dry Polar and Moist Polar weather increased mortality from lag 6 to lag 10 and from lag 19 to lag 26, respectively. No effect of oppressive weather was found in the North. The effect of oppressive weather types in Sweden varies across seasons and regions. In the North, a small study sample reduces precision of estimates, while in the South, the effect of oppressive weather types is more evident in both seasons.
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Bai YL, Huang DS, Liu J, Li DQ, Guan P. Effect of meteorological factors on influenza-like illness from 2012 to 2015 in Huludao, a northeastern city in China. PeerJ 2019; 7:e6919. [PMID: 31110929 PMCID: PMC6501768 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 04/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Background This study aims to describe the epidemiological patterns of influenza-like illness (ILI) in Huludao, China and seek scientific evidence on the link of ILI activity with weather factors. Methods Surveillance data of ILI cases between January 2012 and December 2015 was collected in Huludao Central Hospital, meteorological data was obtained from the China Meteorological Data Service Center. Generalized additive model (GAM) was used to seek the relationship between the number of ILI cases and the meteorological factors. Multiple Smoothing parameter estimation was made on the basis of Poisson distribution, where the number of weekly ILI cases was treated as response, and the smoothness of weather was treated as covariates. Lag time was determined by the smallest Akaike information criterion (AIC). Smoothing coefficients were estimated for the prediction of the number of ILI cases. Results A total of 29, 622 ILI cases were observed during the study period, with children ILI cases constituted 86.77%. The association between ILI activity and meteorological factors varied across different lag periods. The lag time for average air temperature, maximum air temperature, minimum air temperature, vapor pressure and relative humidity were 2, 2, 1, 1 and 0 weeks, respectively. Average air temperature, maximum air temperature, minimum air temperature, vapor pressure and relative humidity could explain 16.5%, 9.5%, 18.0%, 15.9% and 7.7% of the deviance, respectively. Among the temperature indexes, the minimum temperature played the most important role. The number of ILI cases peaked when minimum temperature was around -13 °C in winter and 18 °C in summer. The number of cases peaked when the relative humidity was equal to 43% and then began to decrease with the increase of relative humidity. When the humidity exceeded 76%, the number of ILI cases began to rise. Conclusions The present study first analyzed the relationship between meteorological factors and ILI cases with special consideration of the length of lag period in Huludao, China. Low air temperature and low relative humidity (cold and dry weather condition) played a considerable role in the epidemic pattern of ILI cases. The trend of ILI activity could be possibly predicted by the variation of meteorological factors.
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- Ying-Long Bai
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.,Department of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.,Department of Mathematics, School of Fundamental Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Division of Infectious Disease Control, Huludao Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Huludao, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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Liu Z, Zhang J, Zhang Y, Lao J, Liu Y, Wang H, Jiang B. Effects and interaction of meteorological factors on influenza: Based on the surveillance data in Shaoyang, China. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2019; 172:326-332. [PMID: 30825682 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.01.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Revised: 10/25/2018] [Accepted: 01/30/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated that meteorological factors influence the incidence of influenza. However, little is known regarding the interactions of meteorological factors on the risk of influenza in China. OBJECTIVE The study aimed to evaluate the associations between meteorological factors and influenza in Shaoyang of southern China, and explore the interaction of temperature with humidity and rainfall. METHODS Weekly meteorological data and disease surveillance data of influenza in Shaoyang were collected from 2009 to 2012. According to the incubation period and infectious period of influenza virus, the maximum lag period was set as 3 weeks. A generalized additive model was conducted to evaluate the effect of meteorological factors on the weekly number of influenza cases and a stratification model was applied to investigate the interaction. RESULTS During the study period, the total number of influenza cases that were notified in the study area was 2506, with peak times occurring from December to March. After controlling for the confounders, each 5 °C decrease in minimum temperature was related to 8% (95%CI: 1-15%) increase in the number of influenza cases at a 1-week lag. There was an interaction between minimum temperature and relative humidity and the risk of influenza was higher in cold and less humid conditions than other conditions. The interaction between minimum temperature and rainfall was not statistically significant in our study. CONCLUSIONS The study suggests that minimum temperature is inversely associated with influenza in the study area of China, and the effect can be modified by relative humidity. Meteorological variables could be integrated in current public health surveillance system to better prepare for the risks of influenza.
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- Zhidong Liu
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China
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- School of Public Health, China Studies Centre, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Administration, Second Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China.
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Riancho-Zarrabeitia L, Rasilla DF, Royé D, Fdez-Arroyabe P, Santurtún A. Kawasaki disease in Spanish paediatric population and synoptic weather types: an observational study. Rheumatol Int 2018; 38:1259-1266. [PMID: 29846788 DOI: 10.1007/s00296-018-4066-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Kawasaki disease (KD) is a vasculitis of unelucidated pathogenesis that usually occurs in paediatric patients. In this study we analyse the temporal pattern and geographical distribution of the disease in Spain, and its relationship with atmospheric circulation patterns. We performed a retrospective study in which we collected all hospital admissions due to KD in the country between 2005 and 2015 and explored their relationship with demographic and geographical characteristics. Moreover, we calculated daily surface atmospheric patterns over Spain to study the relationship between weather types (WT) and KD Admissions. The average admission rate for KD in the paediatric population was 3.90 per 100,000, with a male to female ratio of 1.56:1. The highest rate of admissions was found in the 0-4-year-old group, with an incidence of 11.7 cases per 100,000. Admissions followed an annual cyclic pattern with a peak of incidence in January (p = 0.022) and a nadir in September. There was an upwards trend in the number of KD admissions in male sex during the study period (p = 0.004). However, there were marked geographical differences in the incidence rate. Finally, the analysis of the relationship between the WT and the number of admissions by KD revealed no statistically significant association. KD admissions follow a peculiar seasonal and spatial distribution, that suggest the involvement of environmental factors in the disease; however, the absence of an association with WT should be interpreted with caution and regional studies should be done to explore this relationship.
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- Department of Geography, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Geography, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Unit of Legal Medicine, Pharmacology and Physiology Department, University of Cantabria, Av Cardenal Herrera Oria s/n, 39011, Santander, Spain.
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Gosling SN. Additional new insights into Biometeorology. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY 2018; 62:1-2. [PMID: 29270872 DOI: 10.1007/s00484-017-1478-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2017] [Revised: 11/15/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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- Simon N Gosling
- School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
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Gosling SN. Additional new insights into biometeorology. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY 2017:10.1007/s00484-017-1438-6. [PMID: 28914363 DOI: 10.1007/s00484-017-1438-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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- Simon N Gosling
- School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
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Mehdipoor H, Vanos JK, Zurita-Milla R, Cao G. Short communication: emerging technologies for biometeorology. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY 2017; 61:81-88. [PMID: 28710523 DOI: 10.1007/s00484-017-1399-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2017] [Revised: 06/15/2017] [Accepted: 06/16/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The first decade of the twenty-first century saw remarkable technological advancements for use in biometeorology. These emerging technologies have allowed for the collection of new data and have further emphasized the need for specific and/or changing systems for efficient data management, data processing, and advanced representations of new data through digital information management systems. This short communication provides an overview of new hardware and software technologies that support biometeorologists in representing and understanding the influence of atmospheric processes on living organisms.
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- Hamed Mehdipoor
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography and School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
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