RELATION BETWEEN METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS AND PAIN IN RHEUMATOID-ARTHRITIS IN A MARINE CLIMATE

  • 1 January 1985
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 12  (4) , 711-715
Abstract
Reports indicate that weather conditions may affect some symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but not the disease itself. Eighty-eight patients living in the marine climate of the Dutch coastal provinces scored their pain symptoms daily during a full year. Correlation analyses of monthly patient averaged pain scores against each of 6 weather factors indicated that RA pain associates positively and quite significantly (p < 0.01) with temperature and with vapour pressure, negatively and significantly (p < 0.02) with relative humidity and not with any of the other factors. The fact that the relation between the temperature/vapour pressure complex and RA pain is stronger in summer than in winter is discussed.

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