Wednesday, March 31, 2021

EXPRESS: Dependence of seasonal dynamics of cardiovascular events on a climate of a region: a meta-analysis

How is this research of any use to getting survivors recovered? It just seems like padding to fulfill some requirement to publish research and reviews are easy.

EXPRESS: Dependence of seasonal dynamics of cardiovascular events on a climate of a region: a meta-analysis

First Published March 16, 2021 Research Article 

Background

Cardiovascular events (CVEs) occur more often in winter than in summer; however, the dependence of strokes on various meteorological factors remains unclear .

Aims

The purpose of this meta-analysis was to determine the dependence of the circannual dynamics of hospitalizations for hemorrhagic stroke (HS) and ischemic stroke (IS) on seasonal fluctuations in meteorological factors.

Summary of review and conclusions

For our meta-analysis, we selected 20 and 26 publications examining the seasonal dynamics of HS and IS, respectively . The meta-analysis showed that HS occurs more often in winter than in other seasons and does not depend on a region’s climate. The seasonal dynamics of IS are not clearly expressed and are determined by the characteristics of a region’s climate. In a climate without pronounced seasonal dynamics of atmospheric pressure and in wet winters, the vector of IS incidents will not be expressed or slightly shifted toward winter. Low atmospheric pressure in summer is associated with an increased likelihood of IS during this season compared to winter. There was also a relation between IS risk with high relative humidity and a significant decrease in ρO2 in summer, but there is not enough evidence regarding this association. We did not reveal dependence of the seasonal dynamics of strokes on the amplitude of annual fluctuations in air temperature.

Keywords: ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, season, meteorological factors, climate

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