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Meteorological Factors

 
 
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Disease relevance of Meteorological Factors

  • An attempt was made to investigate the role of important pollutants (SO(2), NO(2), SPM and RSPM) and various meteorological factors (temperature minimum & maximum, relative humidity at 0830 and 1730 hrs. and wind speed) in being responsible for respiratory admissions on account of COPD, asthma and emphysema [1].
 

High impact information on Meteorological Factors

  • Within each local data set, the logarithms of FVC, FEV1, and FEF25-75 were regressed against the 24-h-means of NO2 and TSP and the 8-h mean of O3 (10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.) on the examination day, with control for subjects' sex, age, height and weight, seasonal fluctuations and weekly cycles and meteorologic factors [2].
  • However, because the fallacy and the uncontrolled confounding effects might have biased the results, the possibility of other meteorological factors having an affect on the SARS outbreaks deserves further investigation [3].
  • Relation between meteorological factors and pain in rheumatoid arthritis in a marine climate [4].
  • Stochastic modelling was used to investigate the influence of airborne fluorides (in the case of grass fluoride) and meteorological factors on both grass and airborne fluoride levels, taking into consideration lagged dependence [5].
  • Statistical analysis revealed that two pollutants have significant positive correlation with the number of COPD cases viz., SPM (r = 0.474; p < 0.01) and RSPM (r = 0.353; p < 0.05), while a meteorological factor temperature (minimum) has a significant negative correlation (r = -0.318; p < 0.05) with COPD [1].
 

Associations of Meteorological Factors with chemical compounds

References

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  3. An initial investigation of the association between the SARS outbreak and weather: with the view of the environmental temperature and its variation. Tan, J., Mu, L., Huang, J., Yu, S., Chen, B., Yin, J. Journal of epidemiology and community health. (2005) [Pubmed]
  4. Relation between meteorological factors and pain in rheumatoid arthritis in a marine climate. Patberg, W.R., Nienhuis, R.L., Veringa, F. J. Rheumatol. (1985) [Pubmed]
  5. Multivariate stochastic modelling of grass fluoride and airborne fluorides. Craggs, C., Davison, A.W. Environ. Pollut. (1987) [Pubmed]
  6. Nitrogen dioxide and respiratory illness in children. Part IV: Effects of housing and meteorologic factors on indoor nitrogen dioxide concentrations. Spengler, J.D., Schwab, M., McDermott, A., Lambert, W.E., Samet, J.M. Research report (Health Effects Institute) (1996) [Pubmed]
 
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