Summer temperature and emergency room visits due to urinary tract infection in South Korea: a national time-stratified case-crossover study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common and severe public health concern, and there are clear biological mechanisms between UTI and hot temperatures, few studies have addressed the association between hot temperatures and UTI.

Methods

We designed a time-stratified case-crossover study using a population-representative sample cohort based on the National Health Insurance System (NHIS) in South Korea. We obtained all NHIS-based hospital admissions through the emergency room (ER) due to UTI (using a primary diagnostic code) from 2006 to 2019. We assigned satellite-based reanalyzed daily summer (June to September) average temperatures as exposures, based on residential districts of beneficiaries (248 districts in South Korea). The conditional logistic regre

SUBMITTER: Park J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11340178 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature