Detailed Information on Publication Record
2017
The Impact of Cold Spells on the Incidence of Infectious Gastroenteritis and Relapse Rates of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Retrospective Controlled Observational Study
MANSER, Christine N., Andrea KRAUS, Thomas FREI, Gerhard ROGLER, Leonhard HELD et. al.Basic information
Original name
The Impact of Cold Spells on the Incidence of Infectious Gastroenteritis and Relapse Rates of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Retrospective Controlled Observational Study
Authors
MANSER, Christine N. (756 Switzerland), Andrea KRAUS (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Thomas FREI (756 Switzerland), Gerhard ROGLER (756 Switzerland) and Leonhard HELD (276 Germany)
Edition
Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases, Basilej, Švýcarsko, Karger, 2017, 2296-9403
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
30219 Gastroenterology and hepatology
Country of publisher
Switzerland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/17:00098351
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
Keywords in English
Ulcerative colitis; Climate change; Cold spell; Crohn disease; Inflammatory bowel disease
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 12/4/2018 14:06, Ing. Nicole Zrilić
Abstract
V originále
Goals: We aimed to assess the impact of very cold days on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) flares and infectious gastroenteritis (IG). We defined a cold day using the World Meteorological definition of an ice day, which is a day with a maximum temperature below 0°C. Background: Recently, we have shown that heat waves increase the risk for IG and IBD flares. Study: We retrospectively collected data from 738 IBD and 786 IG patients admitted to the University Hospital of Zurich between 2001 and 2005 and from 506 patients with other noninfectious chronic intestinal inflammations as controls. Climate data were received by the Swiss Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology. Results: There was no evidence for an increased risk of IBD flares (relative risk, RR = 0.99, 95% confidence interval, CI: 0.72–1.33, p = 0.94) or IG flares (RR = 1.16, 95% CI: 087–1.52, p = 0.30) on very cold days. This negative finding was confirmed in alternative formulations with lagged or cumulative (possibly lagged) effects. Conclusion: In this retrospective controlled observational study, no evidence for an increase in hospital admissions due to flares of IBD and IG during cold days was observed. This may be attributed to not relevantly altered bacterial growth conditions during cold days compared to heat waves.