Short-term effect of meteorological factors and extreme weather events on daily outpatient visits for dry eye disease between 2013 and 2020 : a time-series study in Urumqi, China

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Dry eye disease (DED) is a common disorder of tear secretion on the ocular surface caused by multiple factors with dry eyes as the main symptom, but until now studies focusing on relationship between local meteorological factors and ocular surface diseases in Urumqi are very limited. Besides, the effects of long-term and extreme meteorological factors on DED and the lag effect have not been fully evaluated. Electronic case information of 9970 DED outpatients from the Ophthalmology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University (Urumqi, Xinjiang, China) between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2020, was screened and analyzed. We used a time-series analysis design and a quasi-Poisson generalized linear regression model combined with a distributed lagged nonlinear model (DLNM) to fit the effects of exposure to different meteorological factors and extreme weather on DED outpatient visits. Subgroup analyses were further performed for gender, age, and season. The results showed that exposure to extremely low mean temperature (P1:RR = 1.18), atmospheric pressure (P1:RR = 1.11), and extremely high relative humidity (P99:RR = 1.35) were the risk factors, while extremely high atmospheric pressure (P90:RR = 0.883) and extremely low humidity (P10:RR = 0.856) appeared to have a positive effect on reduced risk of DED. Relative humidity exhibited a 1-day lag effect (RR = 1.06). Increased mean temperature positively affected female DED patients (RR = 0.761) with similar effects in the cold season (RR = 0.926). However, elevated relative humidity had a negative effect on female patients (RR = 1.14). We conducted the first large sample size time-series analysis study in this major city at the farthest distance from the ocean in the world and in northwest China, confirming the association of DED outpatient visits with the remaining three meteorological factors except wind speed in Urumqi, and a larger sample size multi-center epidemiological study with a longer duration is still needed.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

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Environmental science and pollution research international - 30(2023), 52 vom: 12. Nov., Seite 111967-111981

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gui, Si-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Fei [VerfasserIn]
Qiao, Jian-Chao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xin-Chen [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Zhi-Hao [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Fan [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Cheng-Yang [VerfasserIn]
Tao, Fang-Biao [VerfasserIn]
Tao, Li-Ming [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Dong-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Yi, Xiang-Long [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Zheng-Xuan [VerfasserIn]

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Distributed lag model
Extremely high humidity
Journal Article
Lag effect
Temperature
Weather

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Date Completed 15.11.2023

Date Revised 08.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11356-023-29651-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363147861