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High Temperature as a Risk Factor for Infectious Diarrhea in Shanghai, China
BACKGROUND: Recent studies indicate that ambient temperature could be a risk factor for infectious diarrhea, but evidence for such a relation is limited in China. METHODS: We investigated the short-term association between daily temperature and physician-diagnosed infectious diarrhea during 2008–201...
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Japan Epidemiological Association
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3834278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23994865 http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20130012 |
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author | Zhou, Xiaodan Zhou, Yanbing Chen, Renjie Ma, Wenjuan Deng, Haiju Kan, Haidong |
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description | BACKGROUND: Recent studies indicate that ambient temperature could be a risk factor for infectious diarrhea, but evidence for such a relation is limited in China. METHODS: We investigated the short-term association between daily temperature and physician-diagnosed infectious diarrhea during 2008–2010 in Shanghai, China. We adopted a time-series approach to analyze the data and a quasi-Poisson regression model with a natural spline-smoothing function to adjust for long-term and seasonal trends, as well as other time-varying covariates. RESULTS: There was a significant association between temperature and outpatient visits for diarrhea. A 1°C increase in the 6-day moving average of temperature was associated with a 2.68% (95% CI: 1.83%, 3.52%) increase in outpatient visits for diarrhea. We did not find a significant association between rainfall and infectious diarrhea. CONCLUSIONS: High temperature might be a risk factor for infectious diarrhea in Shanghai. Public health programs should focus on preventing diarrhea related to high temperature among city residents. |
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spelling | pubmed-38342782013-12-03 High Temperature as a Risk Factor for Infectious Diarrhea in Shanghai, China Zhou, Xiaodan Zhou, Yanbing Chen, Renjie Ma, Wenjuan Deng, Haiju Kan, Haidong J Epidemiol Original Article BACKGROUND: Recent studies indicate that ambient temperature could be a risk factor for infectious diarrhea, but evidence for such a relation is limited in China. METHODS: We investigated the short-term association between daily temperature and physician-diagnosed infectious diarrhea during 2008–2010 in Shanghai, China. We adopted a time-series approach to analyze the data and a quasi-Poisson regression model with a natural spline-smoothing function to adjust for long-term and seasonal trends, as well as other time-varying covariates. RESULTS: There was a significant association between temperature and outpatient visits for diarrhea. A 1°C increase in the 6-day moving average of temperature was associated with a 2.68% (95% CI: 1.83%, 3.52%) increase in outpatient visits for diarrhea. We did not find a significant association between rainfall and infectious diarrhea. CONCLUSIONS: High temperature might be a risk factor for infectious diarrhea in Shanghai. Public health programs should focus on preventing diarrhea related to high temperature among city residents. Japan Epidemiological Association 2013-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3834278/ /pubmed/23994865 http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20130012 Text en © 2013 Xiaodan Zhou et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Zhou, Xiaodan Zhou, Yanbing Chen, Renjie Ma, Wenjuan Deng, Haiju Kan, Haidong High Temperature as a Risk Factor for Infectious Diarrhea in Shanghai, China |
title | High Temperature as a Risk Factor for Infectious Diarrhea in Shanghai, China |
title_full | High Temperature as a Risk Factor for Infectious Diarrhea in Shanghai, China |
title_fullStr | High Temperature as a Risk Factor for Infectious Diarrhea in Shanghai, China |
title_full_unstemmed | High Temperature as a Risk Factor for Infectious Diarrhea in Shanghai, China |
title_short | High Temperature as a Risk Factor for Infectious Diarrhea in Shanghai, China |
title_sort | high temperature as a risk factor for infectious diarrhea in shanghai, china |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3834278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23994865 http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20130012 |
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