Do Weather Phenomena Have Any Influence on the Occurrence of Spontaneous Pneumothorax?

Vodička, J; Vejvodova, Sarka; Šmíd, David; Fichtl, Jakub; Špidlen, Vladimír; Kormunda, S; Hostýnek, Jiří; Moláček, Jiří

doi:10.1016/j.arbr.2015.10.019

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“…All the aforementioned evidence has been collected in temperate climate, whereas in subtropical and equatorial areas an increased incidence of SPs has been observed during the hottest months [22,29]. Other studies also showed a uniform distribution of SPs during the year [26,30], occasionally with slight increase overlapping with sudden climate changes [31][32][33]. Notably, it has also been hypothesized that small variations in air temperature (as small as 1°C) could be related to the onset of SP, but reliable data in support were lacking [32][33][34].…”

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“…Other studies also showed a uniform distribution of SPs during the year [26,30], occasionally with slight increase overlapping with sudden climate changes [31][32][33]. Notably, it has also been hypothesized that small variations in air temperature (as small as 1°C) could be related to the onset of SP, but reliable data in support were lacking [32][33][34]. Sudden air temperature variations, as in the case of air conditioning during summertime or, contrarily, in the case of heating during wintertime, were not correlated with onset of SP [31,32,35].…”

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Incidence of primary spontaneous pneumothorax is not associated with microclimatic variations. Results of a seven-year survey in a temperate climate area

Comelli

Bologna

Ticinesi

et al. 2017

Monaldi Arch Chest Dis

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Some diseases, such as renal colic and atrial fibrillation, display an association with microclimatic variations. In particular, despite a correlation has been reported between incidence of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) and meteorological variations, the evidence remains poor and conflictual. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of day-by-day meteorological variations on the number of visits for PSP in the Emergency Department (ED). All PSP cases were retrieved from the hospital database from January 2008 to December 2014. For all the observational days, meteorological data about the Parma Province were obtained from the Environment and Climate Regional Agency. The correlation between ED visits for PSP and variation of air temperature (T°), atmospheric pressure (hPa) and humidity (%) was then tested. The chronological data of all the visits for PSP were correlated with climate data by univariate linear regressions analysis. A total number of 608.215 ED visits were recorded during the observational period, with an average of 238 patients per day. Overall, 257 PSP cases were observed (mean age 37±21 years), 79% males and 21% females. No significant correlation between average daily visits for PSP and daily change of average temperature, humidity, or atmospheric pressure was observed throughout the observational period (p>0.05 for all). The results of the study show that the incidence of PSP is not significantly associated with changes of microclimatic variables.

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Incidence of primary spontaneous pneumothorax is not associated with microclimatic variations. Results of a seven-year survey in a temperate climate area

Comelli

Bologna

Ticinesi

et al. 2017

Monaldi Arch Chest Dis

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“…Although they had shown that WV is higher on days when SP occurred, it was shown that the storm had no impact on SP. They have shown a significant correlation between AP and SP [8]. Araz et al demonstrated that SP was associated with air-related factors and that AP, moisture, and temperature had an impact on SP development [9].…”

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“…According to some authors, PSP cases occur in short periods, and it was suggested that this might develop due to transpulmonary pressure differences based on the weather changes [2,3,8]. Again, some authors suggest that PSP is a type of meteoropathia occurring in unexpectedly low atmospheric pressures (AP) [5,6].…”

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Impact of weather conditions and blood groups on primary spontaneous pneumothorax

Şahinoğlu¹,

Katrancioglu²

2020

Curr Thorac Surg

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Background: Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is a clinical condition with an unclear etiology that occurs because of the rupture of pleural bulla or blebs. Several studies indicating the impact of weather conditions on PSP are present. However, the results are varying. The correlation between blood groups and PSP is yet unknown. In this study, we investigated the impact of altering weather conditions atmospheric pressure (AP), temperature, moisture, and wind velocity (WV) and blood groups on PSP. Materials and Methods: Eighty-six patients PSP diagnoses who were under follow-up and treated in our clinic between 2007 and 2015 were included in our study. Patients' data were retrospectively collected from hospital database patient files. The Regional Directorate of Meteorology provided data on weather conditions. Results: The collected data was examined. According to the results, AP and WV had no significant impact on PSP. Regarding the air temperature, values were statistically significantly high (p = 0.019). When comparing with other blood groups, the blood group with the highest resistance to temperature was type-0. This result was statistically significant (p = 0.029). Conclusions: In this study, we determined that temperatures above 15°C had an unexpected effect on the site of the PSP. Surprisingly, PSP risk was lower in patients with blood type-0 at high temperatures. We suggest that multicenter studies with a more extensive sample size should be conducted to fully understand the impact of air condition and blood type on PSP.

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Influence of meteorological factors on development of spontaneous pneumothorax

2022

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This study investigated the correlation between spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) and meteorological factors during different seasons. Patients who visited emergency rooms (ERs) in large cities in Korea and were discharged with SP from 2014 to 2016 were included in this study. Data on temperature, air pressure, and wind speed for each region were collected to obtain each factor’s daily maximum, minimum, average, and changes. Days with more than 1 case of SP per million were referred to as pneumothorax days (PD) and those with less than 1 case of SP per million were referred to as non-pneumothorax days (NPD). The environmental factors were assessed on the same day (Day 0), 1 day prior (Day-1), and 2 days prior (Day-2) to PD and NPD per season. A total of 17,846 patients were included in this study. During winter, 4080 patients with SP visited the ERs of large cities with low population densities. The maximum temperature (0.16°C vs 0.76°C, 0.04°C vs 0.87°C, and 0.09°C vs 0.91°C), change in temperature (0.24°C vs 0.90°C, 0.38°C vs 0.81°C, and 0.41°C vs 0.83°C), average atmospheric pressure (0.16 vs 0.52 hPa, 0.25 vs 0.42 hPa, 0.34 vs 0.40 hPa), and maximum atmospheric pressure (0.15 vs 0.53 hPa, 0.28 vs 0.49 hPa, 0.33 vs 0.71 hPa) were greater for Day 0, Day-1, and Day-2, respectively, in PD than in NPD. Meanwhile, the average (0.31 vs 0.48 m/s, 0.28 vs 0.46 m/s, 0.20 vs 0.40 m/s), minimum (0.20 vs 0.31 m/s, 0.18 vs 0.25 m/s, 0.16 vs 0.25 m/s), and maximum (0.44 vs 0.67 m/s, 0.36 vs 0.71 m/s, 0.26 vs 0.58 m/s) wind speeds were slower, and the changes in wind speed (0.44 vs 0.67 m/s, 0.36 vs 0.71 m/s, 0.16 vs 0.25 m/s) were lower for all 3 days in PD than in NPD. High average and change in temperature, slow and unchanging wind speed, and high average and maximum atmospheric pressure were associated with SP. Since many findings of this study were contradictory to previous studies, it is assumed that the interaction of various factors affects SP.

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Do Weather Phenomena Have Any Influence on the Occurrence of Spontaneous Pneumothorax?

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Incidence of primary spontaneous pneumothorax is not associated with microclimatic variations. Results of a seven-year survey in a temperate climate area

Incidence of primary spontaneous pneumothorax is not associated with microclimatic variations. Results of a seven-year survey in a temperate climate area

Impact of weather conditions and blood groups on primary spontaneous pneumothorax

Influence of meteorological factors on development of spontaneous pneumothorax

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