Short communication, Note
https://doi.org/10.18054/pb.v124i1-2.20829
Association of weather conditions and the day with extreme number of deliveries with spontaneous onset in a tertiary referral perinatal center
Matija Prka
orcid.org/0000-0002-7226-0229
; Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Sveti Duh University Hospital, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Dubravko Habek
orcid.org/0000-0002-7675-7064
; Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Sveti Duh University Hospital, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Egon Kruezi
orcid.org/0000-0002-4801-8037
; Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital Center, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Dunja Plačko-Vršnak
; Croatian Meteorological and Hydrometeorological Service, Zagreb, Croatia
Lidija Srnec
orcid.org/0000-0001-6917-5907
; Croatian Meteorological and Hydrometeorological Service, Zagreb, Croatia
Kristina Medved
; Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Sveti Duh University Hospital, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Background and purpose: The effect of weather on people’s well-being and health has been previously noticed and has been a subject of interest for medical professionals and laypeople throughout human history. There are many studies connecting gynecology and obstetrics with weather, some of them investigating the weather and physiological processes such as onset of labor.Materials and methods: In this paper we tried to find relationship between weather conditions and the day with extreme number of deliveries with spontaneous onset (contractions and/or rupture of membranes) in a tertiary referral perinatal center. It is still debatable whether we could connect the weather conditions with actual childbirth.Results: A case analysis shows that there could be a connection between the development of the weather situation and the extreme number of deliveries with spontaneous onset.Conclusion: Unfavorable biometeorological conditions were the result of weather conditions that affect people. In our case there was strong cold advection during the analyzed period, especially on the day with an extreme number of deliveries with spontaneous onset, and significant drop of barometric pressure.
Keywords
weather conditions; cold advection; spontaneous childbirth; drop of barometric pressure; biometeorological conditions
Hrčak ID:
286261
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Publication date:
30.5.2022.
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