Incidence of acute-onset atrial fibrillation correlates with air temperature. Results of a nine-year survey

Ivan Comelli; Jayme Ferro; Giuseppe Lippi; Denis Comelli; Elisabetta Sartori; Gianfranco Cervellin

doi:10.1016/j.jegh.2013.12.003

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Incidence of acute-onset atrial fibrillation correlates with air temperature. Results of a nine-year survey

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Ivan Comelli^a, Jayme Ferro^b, Giuseppe Lippi^c, Denis Comelli^d, Elisabetta Sartori^e, Gianfranco Cervellin^a^{, *}^,gcervellin@ao.pr.it

^aEmergency Department, Academic Hospital of Parma, Italy

^bPostgraduate School of Cardiology, University of Parma, Italy

^cLaboratory of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, Academic Hospital of Parma, Italy

^dNational Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Ferrara, Italy

^eEpidemiology and Clinical Governance, Academic Hospital of Parma, Italy

^*Corresponding author. Address: Unità Operativa Pronto Soccorso e Medicina d’Urgenza, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43126 Parma, Italy. Tel.: +39 0521 703800; fax: +39 0521 703144.

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Gianfranco Cervellingcervellin@ao.pr.it

Received 22 July 2013, Revised 2 December 2013, Accepted 3 December 2013, Available Online 8 January 2014.

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Keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Acute-onset atrial fibrillation; Climate; Temperature; Humidity
Abstract: Some diseases, such as renal colic, stroke, and myocardial infarction, correlate with seasonality and microclimatic variations. Although evidence is limited and controversial, a correlation between acute-onset atrial fibrillation (AAF) and seasonality has been previously reported. In order to elucidate the possible correlations between weather and incidence of AAF in a country with a temperate climate, the influence of day-by-day climate changes was analyzed based on the number of visits for AAF (defined as onset of symptoms within 48 h) in a large urban Emergency Department (ED) of northern Italy. All the episodes of AAF were retrieved from the hospital’s electronic database during a period of 3287 days (January 2002 to December 2010). Only the cases whose onset occurred within 48 h from the ED visit were selected. The total number of ED visits was 725,812 throughout the observational period. Among these, 3633 AAF cases were observed, 52% of which were males. A slight but significant negative linear correlation was found between the number of AAFs and the daily temperature (R = −0.60; p = 0.001). No correlation was found between the number of AAFs and the daily humidity (R = −0.07; p = 0.2).
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Journal: Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Volume-Issue: 4 - 3
Pages: 151 - 157
Publication Date: 2014/01/08
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