SEASONAL-VARIATIONS IN THE OCCURRENCE OF URINARY-TRACT INFECTIONS AMONG CHILDREN IN AN URBAN AREA IN FINLAND

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 11  (3) , 101-106
Abstract
The seasonal variations in the incidence of urinary tract infections (UTI) were studied 992 verified episodes of UTI treated between 1965 and 1974. The incidence was highest during Nov. and lowest during the summer months. Summer episodes tended to be the most severe. Seasonal variations were less marked among girls than among boys, except in the group of teenage girls in which peak incidences occurred in March and Sept. Among the boys, a single study showed that unseasonable types of weather, i.e., cold and dry weather in autumn, warm and rainy weather in winter, and warm and dry weather in spring, were accompanined by a clear increase in the monthly number of episodes of UTI. The difference in the monthly frequency of UTI between the most and the least favorable types of weather was about 2-fold.

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