ArticleEpidemiology and infection2008
Rotavirus infections and climate variability in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a time-series analysis.
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- Untangling the Impacts of Climate Change on Waterborne Diseases: a Systematic Review of Relationships between Diarrheal Diseases and Temperature, Rainfall, Flooding, and Drought.Environmental science & technology · 2016Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of ambient temperature and diarrhoeal diseases.International journal of epidemiology · 2016Pooled it
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- Heat Index: An Alternative Indicator for Measuring the Impacts of Meteorological Factors on Diarrhoea in the Climate Change Era: A Time Series Study in Dhaka, Bangladesh.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Influence of hydrometeorological risk factors on child diarrhea and enteropathogens in rural Bangladesh.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
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- Understanding diarrhoeal diseases in response to climate variability and drought in Cape Town, South Africa: a mixed methods approach.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2023Article
- Derivation and External Validation of a Clinical Prediction Model for Viral Diarrhea Etiology in Bangladesh.Open forum infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Effects of High Temperature and Heavy Precipitation on Drinking Water Quality and Child Hand Contamination Levels in Rural Kenya.Environmental science & technology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Attempts to explain the clear seasonality of rotavirus infections have been made by relating disease incidence to climate factors; however, few studies have disentangled the effects of weather from other factors that might cause seasonality. We investigated the relationships between hospital visits for rotavirus diarrhoea and temperature, humidity and river level, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, using time-series analysis adjusting for other confounding seasonal factors. There was strong evidence for an increase in rotavirus diarrhoea at high temperatures, by 40.2% for each 1 degrees C increase above a threshold (29 degrees C). Relative humidity had a linear inverse relationship with the number of cases of rotavirus diarrhoea. River level, above a threshold (4.8 m), was associated with an increase in cases of rotavirus diarrhoea, by 5.5% per 10-cm river-level rise. Our findings provide evidence that factors associated with high temperature, low humidity and high river-level increase the incidence of rotavirus diarrhoea in Dhaka.
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