Relationship between Acute Cerebral Infarction and Seasonal Variations in Tianjin.

Autor: XUE Juanjuan, WANG Lin, LI Xin, TIAN Xiaolin, LIU Peilin, FENG Rui, WANG Luosha
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Zdroj: Tianjin Medical Journal; Aug2014, Vol. 42 Issue 8, p810-813, 4p
Abstrakt: Objective To explore the influence of seasonal variations on acute cerebral infarction outcome.Mmethods We collected data from acute cerebral infarction patients in the Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University from January 2009 to February 2012. All cases were classified by months and seasons into different groups to analyze the seasonal variations retrospectively. Results (1) The percentage of good outcome of acute cerebral infarction show significant difference between each month (P < 0.01) . The percentage of good outcome was highest in August (92.1%), lowest in December (78.1%), second lowest in April(81.9%) . The percentage of good outcome in summer (91.6%) was higher than spring (87.2%), autumn (86.4%)and winter(83.9%) (P < 0.05) . (2) Among those patients converted to bad outcome more patients was attacked by cerebrovascular accident in winter (68.3%) than in summer (43.2%), and more patients was combined with a pulmonary infection in winter (69.5%) than in summer (48.6%) and in autumn (49.3%) (P < 0.05). (3) Seasonal effect in acute cerebral infarction outcome was obvious in those =65 years of age (P < 0.05). Conclusion Seasonal changes are associated with the outcome and severity of acute cerebral infarction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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