Epistaxis: a study of the relationship with weather.
Epistaxis is the commonest ENT emergency requiring hospital admission. A seasonal variation in the admission rate has been documented. The role of weather in accounting for this variation is uncertain. A retrospective review of 686 adult hospital admissions for idiopathic spontaneous epistaxis over a 2-year period in the Greater Glasgow area was carried out. The most significant weather parameter which correlated with monthly admissions was mean monthly temperature (Pearson's correlation coefficient -0.81, P less than 0.01). Admissions increased by over 100% from the warmest to the coldest months. This is the first report of the high correlation between hospital admissions for epistaxis and mean monthly temperature.
Nunez
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Department of Otolaryngology, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.
McClymont
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Evans
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D004844:Epistaxis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D014887:Weather