Uhthoffʼs phenomenon in a patient with multiple sclerosis during the perioperative period for hip surgery. Case report

Gallego-Gallego, María; Anillo-Lombana, Víctor Eduardo; Gómez‐Mayordomo, Víctor; García-Miguel, Francisco Javier

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“… Pollutants determine an association with inflammatory outbreaks of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Thus, PM 10 particles were 8% associated with an increase of relapse during the cold season, whilst ozone was 16% associated during the hot season (therefore, ozone is pathogenically triggered by high temperatures) [ 111 , 112 ]. Around 50,000 people in Spain suffer from this disease, whose average cost is 30,000 euros/patient/year; this implies a global burden of €1.4 billion/year [ 113 ], added to the severe disability which it involves.…”

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“…Around 50,000 people in Spain suffer from this disease, whose average cost is 30,000 euros/patient/year; this implies a global burden of €1.4 billion/year [ 113 ], added to the severe disability which it involves. 112 to 224 million euros/year could be saved by controlling pollutants alone, without taking into account the benefit to be gained by controlling high temperatures and, thus, avoiding the exacerbation suffered by MS patients (Uhthoff phenomenon) [ 112 , 114 ]. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) include Crohn’s disease (CD), Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Non-classifiable IBD.…”

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Impact of Climate Change on Eye Diseases and Associated Economical Costs

Echevarría-Lucas¹,

Senciales-González

Medialdea-Hurtado³

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Climate change generates negative impacts on human health. However, little is known about specific impacts on eye diseases, especially in arid and semi-arid areas where increases in air temperatures are expected. Therefore, the main goals of this research are: (i) to highlight the association between common eye diseases and environmental factors; and (ii) to analyze, through the available literature, the health expenditure involved in combating these diseases and the savings from mitigating the environmental factors that aggravate them. Mixed methods were used to assess the cross-variables (environmental factors, eye diseases, health costs). Considering Southern Spain as an example, our results showed that areas with similar climatic conditions could increase eye diseases due to a sustained increase in temperatures and torrential rains, among other factors. We highlight that an increase in eye diseases in Southern Spain is conditioned by the effects of climate change by up to 36.5%; the economic burden of the main eye diseases, extrapolated to the rest of the country, would represent an annual burden of 0.7% of Spain’s Gross Domestic Product. In conclusion, the increase in eye diseases has a strong economic and social impact that could be reduced with proper management of the effects of climate change. We propose a new concept: disease sink, defined as any climate change mitigation action which reduces the incidence or morbidity of disease.

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