Association of meteorological factors with paediatric intussusception in Hangzhou: an 8-year retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to investigate the seasonality of paediatric intussusception and the associations between meteorological factors and paediatric intussusception in Hangzhou, as well as aimed to compare the variance in sex and disease type.

Design

An 8-year retrospective study was conducted from January 2014 to December 2021 in the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Setting

This was a single-centre retrospective study review of intussusception cases in a large Children's Hospital in Hangzhou.

Participants

There were 17 674 patients with intussusception in this study.

Methods

A Spearman correlation analysis and Poisson regression analysis were used to determine the association between weekly intussusception cases and me

SUBMITTER: Feng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9621181 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature