Effects of ambient temperature on influenza-like illness: A multicity analysis in Shandong Province, China, 2014-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The associations between ambient temperature and influenza-like illness (ILI) have been investigated in previous studies. However, they have inconsistent results. The purpose of this study was to estimate the effect of ambient temperature on ILI in Shandong Province, China.

Methods

Weekly ILI surveillance and meteorological data over 2014-2017 of the Shandong Province were collected from the Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the China Meteorological Data Service Center, respectively. A distributed lag non-linear model was adopted to estimate the city-specific temperature-ILI relationships, which were used to pool the regional-level and provincial-level estimates through a multivariate meta-analysis.

Results

There were 911,743 ILI cases

SUBMITTER: Yin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9868675 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature