Department of Medical Laser, Dankook University Graduate School of Medicine, Chungnam, South Korea.
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Chungnam, South Korea.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Aug;29(39):59052-59059. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-20070-y. Epub 2022 Apr 5.
Big data can be used to correlate diseases and climatic factors. The prevalence of influenza (flu) virus, accounting for a large proportion of respiratory infections, suggests that the effect of climate variables according to seasonal dynamics of influenza virus infections should be investigated. Here, trends in flu virus detection were analyzed using data from 9,010 tests performed between January 2012 and December 2018 at Dankook University Hospital, Cheonan, Korea. We compared the detection of the flu virus in Cheonan area and its association with climate change. The flu virus detection rate was 9.9% (894/9,010), and the detection rate was higher for flu virus A (FLUAV; 6.9%) than for flu virus B (FLUBV; 3.0%). Both FLUAV and FLUBV infections are considered an epidemic each year. We identified 43.1% (n = 385) and 35.0% (n = 313) infections in children aged < 10 years and adults aged > 60 years, respectively. The combination of these age groups encompassed 78.1% (n = 698/894) of the total data. Flu virus infections correlated with air temperature, relative humidity, vapor pressure, atmospheric pressure, particulate matter, and wind chill temperature (P < 0.001). However, the daily temperature range did not significantly correlate with the flu detection results. This is the first study to identify the relationship between long-term flu virus infection with temperature in the temperate region of Cheonan.
大数据可用于关联疾病和气候因素。流感（flu）病毒的流行率很高，占呼吸道感染的很大比例，这表明应根据流感病毒感染的季节性动态来研究气候变量的影响。在这里，我们使用韩国天安 Dankook 大学医院在 2012 年 1 月至 2018 年 12 月期间进行的 9010 次检测的数据来分析流感病毒的检测趋势。我们比较了天安地区流感病毒的检测情况及其与气候变化的关系。流感病毒的检出率为 9.9%（894/9010），其中流感病毒 A（FLUAV）的检出率（6.9%）高于流感病毒 B（FLUBV）（3.0%）。FLUAV 和 FLUBV 感染每年都被认为是一种流行病。我们发现，<10 岁的儿童和>60 岁的成年人的感染率分别为 43.1%（n=385）和 35.0%（n=313）。这两个年龄段的组合占总数据的 78.1%（n=698/894）。流感病毒感染与空气温度、相对湿度、蒸汽压、大气压力、颗粒物和风寒温度相关（P<0.001）。然而，每日温度范围与流感检测结果无显著相关性。这是第一项在天安温带地区确定长期流感病毒感染与温度之间关系的研究。
