Titre : | Asian dust storm events are associated with an acute increase in stroke hospitalisation. (2013) |
Auteurs : | KANG (Jiunn-Horng) : TWN. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Taipei Medical University Hospital. Taipei. ; KELLER (Joseph) : TWN. School of Medical Laboratory Sciences and Biotechnology. Taipei Medical University. Taipei. ; LIN (Herng-Ching) : TWN. School of Health Care Administration. College of Medicine. Taipei Medical University. Taipei. ; LIU (Tsai-Ching) : TWN. Department of Public Finance. National Taipei University. Taipei. |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Journal of epidemiology and community health (vol. 67, n° 2, 2013) |
Pagination : | 125-131 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Accident cérébrovasculaire ; Poussière ; Association ; Augmentation |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS oCFR0x9A. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objective Asian dust storms (ADS) are long-ranged meteorological phenomena, which are suggested to be associated with several health problems. This study aimed to investigate the risk of stroke hospitalisation following ADS events by conducting a population-based study. Study design and setting The authors identified 810947 hospitalisations with an admission diagnosis of stroke during the time period between 2000 and 2009 in Taiwan. The ARIMA method (Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average) was used to examine the associations between ADS episodes and the daily number of stroke hospitalisations. Results There were 46 separate ADS episodes which resulted in a total of 135 ADS days between 2000 and 2009. The Kruskal-Wallis test revealed that there was a significant difference in the mean number of daily stroke admissions among ADS days (239.6), post-ADS days (249.2) and non-ADS days (219.7) (p |