The association of cellulitis incidence and meteorological factors in Taiwan

Ren Jun Hsu; Chia Cheng Chou; Jui Ming Liu; See Tong Pang; Chien Yu Lin; Heng Chang Chuang; Cheng Keng Chuang; Hsiao Wei Wang; Ying Hsu Chang; Po Hung Lin

doi:10.1017/S0950268819000323

The association of cellulitis incidence and meteorological factors in Taiwan

Ren Jun Hsu, Chia Cheng Chou, Jui Ming Liu, See Tong Pang, Chien Yu Lin, Heng Chang Chuang, Cheng Keng Chuang, Hsiao Wei Wang, Ying Hsu Chang, Po Hung Lin^*

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Abstract

Cellulitis is a common infection of the skin and soft tissue. Susceptibility to cellulitis is related to microorganism virulence, the host immunity status and environmental factors. This retrospective study from 2001 to 2013 investigated relationships between the monthly incidence rate of cellulitis and meteorological factors using data from the Taiwanese Health Insurance Dataset and the Taiwanese Central Weather Bureau. Meteorological data included temperature, hours of sunshine, relative humidity, total rainfall and total number of rainy days. In otal, 195 841 patients were diagnosed with cellulitis and the incidence rate was strongly correlated with temperature (γS = 0.84, P < 0.001), total sunshine hours (γS = 0.65, P < 0.001) and total rainfall (γS = 0.53, P < 0.001). The incidence rate of cellulitis increased by 3.47/100 000 cases for every 1° elevation in environmental temperature. Our results may assist clinicians in educating the public of the increased risk of cellulitis during warm seasons and possible predisposing environmental factors for infection.

Original language	English
Article number	e138
Journal	Epidemiology and Infection
Volume	147
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268819000323
State	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

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