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This work aims to study associations between monthly averages of meteorological variables and monthly frequencies of diverse diseases in the calls to the public ambulance emergency service of the city of Buenos Aires during the years 1999-2004. Throughout this time period no changes were made in the classification codes of the illnesses. Heart disease, arrhythmia, heart failure, cardiopulmonary arrest, angina pectoris, psychiatric diseases, stroke, transient ischemic attack, syncope and the total number of calls were analyzed against 11 weather variables and the four seasons. All illnesses exhibited some seasonal behavior, except cardiorespiratory arrest and angina pectoris. The largest frequencies of illnesses that exhibited some association with the meteorological variables used to occur in winter, except the psychiatric cases. Heart failure, stroke, psychiatric diseases and the total number of calls showed significant correlations with the 11 meteorological variables considered, and the largest indices (absolute values above 0. 6) were found for the former two pathologies. On the other side, cardiorespiratory arrest and angina pectoris revealed no significant correlations and nearly null indices. Variables associated with temperature were the meteorological proxies with the largest correlations against diseases. Pressure and humidity mostly exhibited positive correlations, which is the opposite of variables related to temperature. Contrary to all other diseases, psychiatric pathologies showed a clear predominance of positive correlations. Finally, the association degree of the medical dataset with recurrent patterns was further evaluated through Fourier analysis, to assess the presence of statistically significant behavior. In the Northern Hemisphere high morbidity and mortality rates in December are usually assigned to diverse factors in relation to the holidays, but such an effect is not observed in the present analysis. There seems to be no clearly preferred meteorological proxy among the different types of temperatures used. It is shown that the amount of occurrences depends mainly on season rather on its strength quantified by temperature. © 2012 ISB.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Association of monthly frequencies of diverse diseases in the calls to the public emergency service of the city of Buenos Aires during 1999-2004 with meteorological variables and seasons
Autor:Alexander, P.
Filiación:Departamento Física - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:Climate; Diseases; Emergency service; Seasonal behavior; Argentina; article; cardiovascular disease; city; emergency health service; faintness; human; mental disease; season; statistics; weather; Argentina; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cities; Emergency Medical Services; Humans; Mental Disorders; Seasons; Syncope; Weather; Angina; Syncope
Año:2013
Volumen:57
Número:1
Página de inicio:83
Página de fin:90
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-012-0536-8
Título revista:International Journal of Biometeorology
Título revista abreviado:Int. J. Biometeorol.
ISSN:00207128
CODEN:IJBMA
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00207128_v57_n1_p83_Alexander

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(2013) . Association of monthly frequencies of diverse diseases in the calls to the public emergency service of the city of Buenos Aires during 1999-2004 with meteorological variables and seasons. International Journal of Biometeorology, 57(1), 83-90.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-012-0536-8
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Alexander, P. "Association of monthly frequencies of diverse diseases in the calls to the public emergency service of the city of Buenos Aires during 1999-2004 with meteorological variables and seasons" . International Journal of Biometeorology 57, no. 1 (2013) : 83-90.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-012-0536-8
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Alexander, P. "Association of monthly frequencies of diverse diseases in the calls to the public emergency service of the city of Buenos Aires during 1999-2004 with meteorological variables and seasons" . International Journal of Biometeorology, vol. 57, no. 1, 2013, pp. 83-90.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-012-0536-8
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Alexander, P. Association of monthly frequencies of diverse diseases in the calls to the public emergency service of the city of Buenos Aires during 1999-2004 with meteorological variables and seasons. Int. J. Biometeorol. 2013;57(1):83-90.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-012-0536-8