ArticleEpidemiology and infection2018
Warmer weather as a risk factor for hospitalisations due to urinary tract infections.
Article in Epidemiology and infection, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04108910 (Reduction in Morbidity Rate for Urinary Tract Infections Through Use of PCR-Based Diagnosis and Management), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers.
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Reduction in Morbidity Rate for Urinary Tract Infections Through Use of PCR-Based Diagnosis and Management
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Summer temperature and emergency room visits due to urinary tract infection in South Korea: a national time-stratified case-crossover study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Epidemiological insights into seasonal, sex‑specific and age‑related distribution of bacterial pathogens in urinary tract infections.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2024Article
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- [Sociodemographic characteristics and risk factors associated to significative bacteriuria in a Spanish health area].Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2022Article
- Ambient temperature and risk of urinary tract infection in California: A time-stratified case-crossover study using electronic health records.Environment international · 2022Article
- Association of Warmer Weather and Infectious Complications Following Transrectal Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Biopsy.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Antibiotic resistance in uropathogens across northern Australia 2007-20 and impact on treatment guidelines.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2021Article
- Warmer Weather and the Risk of Urinary Tract Infections in Women.The Journal of urology · 2021Article
- Associations between extreme weather events, resource insecurities, and HIV vulnerabilities with self-reported urinary tract infection symptoms among adolescent girls and young women in Kenya.The journal of climate change and healthArticle
- Climate change and antibiotic resistance: a deadly combination.Therapeutic advances in infectious diseaseReview
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Abstract
The incidence of urinary tract infections (UTIs) is seasonal, and this seasonality may be explained by changes in weather, specifically, temperature. Using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, we identified the geographic location for 581 813 hospital admissions with the primary diagnosis of a UTI and 56 630 773 non-UTI hospitalisations in the United States. Next, we used data from the National Climatic Data Center to estimate the monthly average temperature for each location. Using a case-control design, we modelled the odds of a hospital admission having a primary diagnosis of UTI as a function of demographics, payer, location, patient severity, admission month, year and the average temperature for the admission month. We found, after controlling for patient factors and month of admission, the odds of a UTI diagnosis increased with higher temperatures in a dose-dependent manner. For example, relative to months with average temperatures of 5-7.5 °C, an admission in a month with an average temperature of 27.5-30 °C has 20% higher odds of a primary diagnosis of UTI. However, in months with extremely high average temperatures (above 30 °C), the odds of a UTI admissions decrease, perhaps due to changes in behaviour. Thus, at a population level, UTI-related hospitalisations are associated with warmer weather.
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