The non-linear and lagged short-term relationship between rainfall and leptospirosis and the intermediate role of floods in the Philippines.
Leptospirosis is a worldwide bacterial zoonosis. Outbreaks of leptospirosis after heavy rainfall and flooding have been reported. However, few studies have formally quantified the effect of weather factors on leptospirosis incidence. We estimated the association between rainfall and leptospirosis ca...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:28b5ad3fd0884f64a6cf70b17ee362bb 2023-05-15T15:10:27+02:00 The non-linear and lagged short-term relationship between rainfall and leptospirosis and the intermediate role of floods in the Philippines. Naohiko Matsushita Chris Fook Sheng Ng Yoonhee Kim Motoi Suzuki Nobuo Saito Koya Ariyoshi Eumelia P Salva Efren M Dimaano Jose B Villarama Winston S Go Masahiro Hashizume 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006331 https://doaj.org/article/28b5ad3fd0884f64a6cf70b17ee362bb EN eng Public Library of Science (PLoS) http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5919665?pdf=render https://doaj.org/toc/1935-2727 https://doaj.org/toc/1935-2735 1935-2727 1935-2735 doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0006331 https://doaj.org/article/28b5ad3fd0884f64a6cf70b17ee362bb PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 12, Iss 4, p e0006331 (2018) Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article 2018 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006331 2022-12-31T00:59:18Z Leptospirosis is a worldwide bacterial zoonosis. Outbreaks of leptospirosis after heavy rainfall and flooding have been reported. However, few studies have formally quantified the effect of weather factors on leptospirosis incidence. We estimated the association between rainfall and leptospirosis cases in an urban setting in Manila, the Philippines, and examined the potential intermediate role of floods in this association.Relationships between rainfall and the weekly number of hospital admissions due to leptospirosis from 2001 to 2012 were analyzed using a distributed lag non-linear model in a quasi-Poisson regression framework, controlling for seasonally varying factors other than rainfall. The role of floods on the rainfall-leptospirosis relationship was examined using an indicator. We reported relative risks (RRs) by rainfall category based on the flood warning system in the country. The risk of post-rainfall leptospirosis peaked at a lag of 2 weeks (using 0 cm/week rainfall as the reference) with RRs of 1.30 (95% confidence interval: 0.99-1.70), 1.53 (1.12-2.09), 2.45 (1.80-3.33), 4.61 (3.30-6.43), and 13.77 (9.10-20.82) for light, moderate, heavy, intense and torrential rainfall (at 2, 5, 16, 32 and 63 cm/week), respectively. After adjusting for floods, RRs (at a lag of 2 weeks) decreased at higher rainfall levels suggesting that flood is on the causal pathway between rainfall and leptospirosis.Rainfall was strongly associated with increased hospital admission for leptospirosis at a lag of 2 weeks, and this association was explained in part by floods. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 12 4 e0006331 |
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Leptospirosis is a worldwide bacterial zoonosis. Outbreaks of leptospirosis after heavy rainfall and flooding have been reported. However, few studies have formally quantified the effect of weather factors on leptospirosis incidence. We estimated the association between rainfall and leptospirosis cases in an urban setting in Manila, the Philippines, and examined the potential intermediate role of floods in this association.Relationships between rainfall and the weekly number of hospital admissions due to leptospirosis from 2001 to 2012 were analyzed using a distributed lag non-linear model in a quasi-Poisson regression framework, controlling for seasonally varying factors other than rainfall. The role of floods on the rainfall-leptospirosis relationship was examined using an indicator. We reported relative risks (RRs) by rainfall category based on the flood warning system in the country. The risk of post-rainfall leptospirosis peaked at a lag of 2 weeks (using 0 cm/week rainfall as the reference) with RRs of 1.30 (95% confidence interval: 0.99-1.70), 1.53 (1.12-2.09), 2.45 (1.80-3.33), 4.61 (3.30-6.43), and 13.77 (9.10-20.82) for light, moderate, heavy, intense and torrential rainfall (at 2, 5, 16, 32 and 63 cm/week), respectively. After adjusting for floods, RRs (at a lag of 2 weeks) decreased at higher rainfall levels suggesting that flood is on the causal pathway between rainfall and leptospirosis.Rainfall was strongly associated with increased hospital admission for leptospirosis at a lag of 2 weeks, and this association was explained in part by floods. |
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The non-linear and lagged short-term relationship between rainfall and leptospirosis and the intermediate role of floods in the Philippines. |
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The non-linear and lagged short-term relationship between rainfall and leptospirosis and the intermediate role of floods in the Philippines. |
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The non-linear and lagged short-term relationship between rainfall and leptospirosis and the intermediate role of floods in the Philippines. |
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The non-linear and lagged short-term relationship between rainfall and leptospirosis and the intermediate role of floods in the Philippines. |
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The non-linear and lagged short-term relationship between rainfall and leptospirosis and the intermediate role of floods in the Philippines. |
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