Weather patterns and Legionnaires' disease: a meteorological study
| Autor: | David Gelb, Andre Charlett, Carol Joseph, J. V. Lee, C. Lane, Katherine D. Ricketts |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors Wales Epidemiology business.industry medicine.disease Surgery Infectious Diseases Environmental temperature England Lung disease Population Surveillance Multivariate Analysis Humans Medicine Relative humidity Conditional logistic regression Legionnaires' disease Legionnaires' Disease business Weather patterns Weather Effect modification Demography |
| Zdroj: | Epidemiology and Infection. 137:1003-1012 |
| ISSN: | 1469-4409 0950-2688 |
| Popis: | SUMMARYThis study examined the impact of meteorological conditions on sporadic, community-acquired cases of Legionnaires' disease in England and Wales (2003–2006), with reference to the 2006 increase in cases. A case-crossover methodology compared each case with self-controlled data using a conditional logistic regression analysis. Effect modification by quarter and year was explored. In total, 674 cases were entered into the dataset and two meteorological variables were selected for study based on preliminary analyses: relative humidity during a case's incubation period, and temperature during the 10–14 weeks preceding onset. For the quarter July–September there was strong evidence to suggest a year, humidity and temperature interaction (Wald χ2=30·59, 3 d.f., P |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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