Monthly variation in acute appendicitis incidence: a 10-year nationwide population-based study.

摘要: Abstract Background The present study investigated the monthly variation of acute appendicitis and its association with climatic factors (ambient temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, rainfall, hours sunshine) using a nationwide population-based data set in Taiwan. Methods We identified 237,760 first-time hospitalizations for from 2000 to 2009. used auto-regressive integrated moving average method examine incidence rates after adjusting time-trend effect seasonality. Results Throughout 10-year period, we found that rate demonstrated fairly similar pattern each gender independently pooled data. May through July had greatest rates, decreasing August trough February. autoregressive test seasonality significant difference genders male- female-only groups (all P Conclusions results our have revealed appendicitis.