High Temperature as a Risk Factor for Infectious Diarrhea in Shanghai, China

Background Recent studies indicate that ambient temperature could be a risk factor for infectious diarrhea, but evidence for such a relation is limited in China. Methods We investigated the short-term association between daily temperature and physician-diagnosed infectious diarrhea during 2008–2010 in Shanghai, China. We adopted a time-series approach to analyze the data and a quasi-Poisson regression model with a natural spline-smoothing function to adjust for long-term and seasonal trends, as well as other time-varying covariates. Results There was a significant association between temperature and outpatient visits for diarrhea. A 1°C increase in the 6-day moving average of temperature was associated with a 2.68% (95% CI: 1.83%, 3.52%) increase in outpatient visits for diarrhea. We did not find a significant association between rainfall and infectious diarrhea. Conclusions High temperature might be a risk factor for infectious diarrhea in Shanghai. Public health programs should focus on preventing diarrhea related to high temperature among city residents.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Journal of Epidemiology

• Publication date

  2013-08-31

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2188/jea.JE20130012PMID 23994865PMCID 3834278
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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