ArticleBMC public health2021
Changes in ambient temperature increase hospital outpatient visits for allergic rhinitis in Xinxiang, China.
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- Risk factors of allergic rhinitis and its prevention strategies.Frontiers in allergy · 2024Review
- Predicting monthly hospital outpatient visits based on meteorological environmental factors using the ARIMA model.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Association of temperature variability with the risk of initial outpatient visits for allergic rhinitis: a time-series study in Changchun.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- The Association Between Air Pollutants and Daily Outpatient Visits for Allergic Rhinitis: A Time-Series Analysis Based on Distribution Lag Nonlinear Model in Chongqing, China.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2022Article
- The Short-term Effects of Temperature on Infectious Diarrhea among Children under 5 Years Old in Jiangsu, China: A Time-series Study (2015-2019).Current medical science · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe effect of ambient temperature on allergic rhinitis (AR) remains unclear. Accordingly, this study aimed to explore the relationship between ambient temperature and the risk of AR outpatients in Xinxiang, China.
methodDaily data of outpatients for AR, meteorological conditions, and ambient air pollution in Xinxiang, China were collected from 2015 to 2018. The lag-exposure-response relationship between daily mean temperature and the number of hospital outpatient visits for AR was analyzed by distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM). Humidity, long-time trends, day of the week, public holidays, and air pollutants including sulfur dioxide (SO
resultsA total of 14,965 AR outpatient records were collected. The relationship between ambient temperature and AR outpatients was generally M-shaped. There was a higher risk of AR outpatient when the temperature was 1.6-9.3 °C, at a lag of 0-7 days. Additionally, the positive association became significant when the temperature rose to 23.5-28.5 °C, at lag 0-3 days. The effects were strongest at the 25th (7 °C) percentile, at lag of 0-7 days (RR: 1.32, 95% confidence intervals (CI): 1.05-1.67), and at the 75th (25 °C) percentile at a lag of 0-3 days (RR: 1.15, 95% CI: 1.02-1.29), respectively. Furthermore, men were more sensitive to temperature changes than women, and the younger groups appeared to be more influenced.
conclusionsBoth mild cold and mild hot temperatures may significantly increase the risk of AR outpatients in Xinxiang, China. These findings could have important public health implications for the occurrence and prevention of AR.
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