Cargando…
Association between Meteorological Factors and Outpatient Visits for Herpes Zoster in Hefei, China: A Time-Series Analysis
This study sought to investigate the relationship between meteorological factors and outpatient visits for herpes zoster. In this time-series analysis, we used data from two major hospitals in Hefei, collected between 2015 and 2019, to evaluate the impact of meteorological factors on the risk of her...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
MDPI
2023
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9915272/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032097 |
_version_ | 1784885864206172160 |
---|---|
author | Lv, Xiaojie Fang, Xinyu Qian, Tingting Cai, Yuyu Gao, Peng Chen, Haifeng Wu, Qing Wu, Jun Fan, Yinguang Ye, Dongqing |
author_facet | Lv, Xiaojie Fang, Xinyu Qian, Tingting Cai, Yuyu Gao, Peng Chen, Haifeng Wu, Qing Wu, Jun Fan, Yinguang Ye, Dongqing |
author_sort | Lv, Xiaojie |
collection | PubMed |
description | This study sought to investigate the relationship between meteorological factors and outpatient visits for herpes zoster. In this time-series analysis, we used data from two major hospitals in Hefei, collected between 2015 and 2019, to evaluate the impact of meteorological factors on the risk of herpes zoster. After controlling for confounders, we adopted a distributed lag nonlinear model to probe the relationship between meteorological factors and outpatient visits for herpes zoster. The analysis was stratified according to age (<40 years, ≥40 years) and sex (male, female). A total of 43,547 cases of herpes zoster were reported, and compared with the median value, a high temperature and high relative humidity had a significant risk effect on the incidence of herpes zoster. The maximum harmful effect of high temperature on herpes zoster occurred on the lag0 (RR: 1.027, 95% CI: 1.002–1.053) and further declined over the following days. The cumulative effect increased with the extension of lag days, and the cumulative RR was the largest on the sixth day of lag (RR1.031, 95% CI: 1.006–1.056) when the relative humidity was 85.7% (77.0% as the reference). The stratified analysis results reveal that females and the elderly (≥40 years) were more susceptible to temperature and relative humidity. This study shows that high-temperatures may lead to herpes zoster, indicating that those infected with varicella zoster virus need to take measures over the course of several days when not exposed to the best appropriate temperature conditions. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-9915272 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2023 |
publisher | MDPI |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-99152722023-02-11 Association between Meteorological Factors and Outpatient Visits for Herpes Zoster in Hefei, China: A Time-Series Analysis Lv, Xiaojie Fang, Xinyu Qian, Tingting Cai, Yuyu Gao, Peng Chen, Haifeng Wu, Qing Wu, Jun Fan, Yinguang Ye, Dongqing Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study sought to investigate the relationship between meteorological factors and outpatient visits for herpes zoster. In this time-series analysis, we used data from two major hospitals in Hefei, collected between 2015 and 2019, to evaluate the impact of meteorological factors on the risk of herpes zoster. After controlling for confounders, we adopted a distributed lag nonlinear model to probe the relationship between meteorological factors and outpatient visits for herpes zoster. The analysis was stratified according to age (<40 years, ≥40 years) and sex (male, female). A total of 43,547 cases of herpes zoster were reported, and compared with the median value, a high temperature and high relative humidity had a significant risk effect on the incidence of herpes zoster. The maximum harmful effect of high temperature on herpes zoster occurred on the lag0 (RR: 1.027, 95% CI: 1.002–1.053) and further declined over the following days. The cumulative effect increased with the extension of lag days, and the cumulative RR was the largest on the sixth day of lag (RR1.031, 95% CI: 1.006–1.056) when the relative humidity was 85.7% (77.0% as the reference). The stratified analysis results reveal that females and the elderly (≥40 years) were more susceptible to temperature and relative humidity. This study shows that high-temperatures may lead to herpes zoster, indicating that those infected with varicella zoster virus need to take measures over the course of several days when not exposed to the best appropriate temperature conditions. MDPI 2023-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9915272/ /pubmed/36767463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032097 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lv, Xiaojie Fang, Xinyu Qian, Tingting Cai, Yuyu Gao, Peng Chen, Haifeng Wu, Qing Wu, Jun Fan, Yinguang Ye, Dongqing Association between Meteorological Factors and Outpatient Visits for Herpes Zoster in Hefei, China: A Time-Series Analysis |
title | Association between Meteorological Factors and Outpatient Visits for Herpes Zoster in Hefei, China: A Time-Series Analysis |
title_full | Association between Meteorological Factors and Outpatient Visits for Herpes Zoster in Hefei, China: A Time-Series Analysis |
title_fullStr | Association between Meteorological Factors and Outpatient Visits for Herpes Zoster in Hefei, China: A Time-Series Analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Association between Meteorological Factors and Outpatient Visits for Herpes Zoster in Hefei, China: A Time-Series Analysis |
title_short | Association between Meteorological Factors and Outpatient Visits for Herpes Zoster in Hefei, China: A Time-Series Analysis |
title_sort | association between meteorological factors and outpatient visits for herpes zoster in hefei, china: a time-series analysis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9915272/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032097 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT lvxiaojie associationbetweenmeteorologicalfactorsandoutpatientvisitsforherpeszosterinhefeichinaatimeseriesanalysis AT fangxinyu associationbetweenmeteorologicalfactorsandoutpatientvisitsforherpeszosterinhefeichinaatimeseriesanalysis AT qiantingting associationbetweenmeteorologicalfactorsandoutpatientvisitsforherpeszosterinhefeichinaatimeseriesanalysis AT caiyuyu associationbetweenmeteorologicalfactorsandoutpatientvisitsforherpeszosterinhefeichinaatimeseriesanalysis AT gaopeng associationbetweenmeteorologicalfactorsandoutpatientvisitsforherpeszosterinhefeichinaatimeseriesanalysis AT chenhaifeng associationbetweenmeteorologicalfactorsandoutpatientvisitsforherpeszosterinhefeichinaatimeseriesanalysis AT wuqing associationbetweenmeteorologicalfactorsandoutpatientvisitsforherpeszosterinhefeichinaatimeseriesanalysis AT wujun associationbetweenmeteorologicalfactorsandoutpatientvisitsforherpeszosterinhefeichinaatimeseriesanalysis AT fanyinguang associationbetweenmeteorologicalfactorsandoutpatientvisitsforherpeszosterinhefeichinaatimeseriesanalysis AT yedongqing associationbetweenmeteorologicalfactorsandoutpatientvisitsforherpeszosterinhefeichinaatimeseriesanalysis |