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- Title
Exploring effects of atmospheric conditions in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.
- Authors
Yusuf, Hamzah M.; Rasheed, Amna; Hetts, Steven; Kim, Helen; Loftus, Patricia; Conrad, Miles
- Abstract
Background: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by recurrent epistaxis, telangiectasias, and visceral arteriovenous malformations. Individuals with HHT often identify low humidity and temperature as detrimental to epistaxis severity. We set out to assess the relationship between humidity and temperature on epistaxis severity in patients with HHT. Methods: Retrospective cross‐sectional study at an academic hospital with an HHT center between July 1, 2014 and January 1, 2022. The primary outcome of this study was ESS. Pearson correlation analyses and multiple linear regression analyses were performed to test the association between weather variables and epistaxis severity scre (ESS). Results were reported as coefficient and 95% confidence interval (CI). Results: Four hundred twenty‐nine patients were included in the analysis. Through a Pearson correlation analysis, neither humidity (regression coefficient = −0.01; 95% CI, −0.006 to 0.003; p = 0.50), daily low temperature (regression coefficient = 0.01; 95% CI, −0.011 to 0.016; p = 0.72), or daily high temperature (regression coefficient = 0.01; 95% CI, −0.004 to 0.013; p = 0.32) were significantly correlated with ESS. In a multiple linear regression analysis, adjusting for both daily low temperature and humidity, medications taken, demographics, and genotype, neither daily low temperature (regression coefficient = −0.02; 95% CI, −0.04 to 0.01; p = 0.14) nor humidity (regression coefficient = 0.01; 95% CI, −0.01 to 0.01; p = 0.64) were significantly associated with ESS. Conclusion: We have shown in a large clinical sample that neither humidity nor temperature were strongly correlated with HHT patient epistaxis severity.
- Subjects
HEREDITARY hemorrhagic telangiectasia; WEATHER; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); MULTIPLE regression analysis; ARTERIOVENOUS malformation
- Publication
International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, 2023, Vol 13, Issue 12, p2172
- ISSN
2042-6976
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/alr.23183