Some people may not realize it but weather can impact your health and well-being. There are many ways weather impacts a person. Seeing how everyone is different the effects are different as well. Wintertime brings some people down, while violence has been tied to the hotter months of the year. Extreme weather like hurricanes or blizzards can impact mental health problems. The weather has a way of changing people. One of the most common types of health issue that comes from the change in weather is called seasonal affective disorder. Seasonal affective disorder is a combination of biologic and mood disturbances with a seasonal pattern (Kurlansik). Seasonal affective disorder is linked to an individual’s master clock also known as circadian
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Arthritis is the swelling and stiffness of ones joints. While most people are not diagnosed with arthritis until they are older people don’t think about the effects of weather until they start feel pain and stiffness. Narrowing down what exactly what weather conditions affect arthritis and why has been difficult seeing how genetics, diet, amount of exercise all play a role in the symptoms of arthritis. However a study that occurred in Belfast at the Musgrave Park Hospital Department of Rheumatology proved weather does play a factor. Data was collected from 133 people based on symptoms of arthritis like how swollen and tender the joint became when introduced to certain weather factors like temperature, humidity, pressure, rainfall to name a few. In this study, rheumatoid arthritis disease activity was significantly lower in both sunnier and less humid conditions. (McCormick, McDonald and …show more content…
Extreme cold can lead to hypothermia or frost bite which can also lead to death. Mortality rates are also affected by environmental temperature. Certain diseases like cardiovascular and respiratory issues are extremely sensitive to changing weather conditions which puts people who have these diseases at a higher risk for death. Among deaths attributed to natural cold during 2006–2010, exposure to excessive natural cold was listed as the underlying cause of death for 48%. During that same time period 10,649 deaths were determined to be caused by weather. 188,000 deaths occurred in Germany between 1990 and 2006 from cardiovascular disease the number of deaths increased 9.5 percent when the temperature increased and 7.9 percent when the temperature
Arthritis is the swelling and stiffness of ones joints. While most people are not diagnosed with arthritis until they are older people don’t think about the effects of weather until they start feel pain and stiffness. Narrowing down what exactly what weather conditions affect arthritis and why has been difficult seeing how genetics, diet, amount of exercise all play a role in the symptoms of arthritis. However a study that occurred in Belfast at the Musgrave Park Hospital Department of Rheumatology proved weather does play a factor. Data was collected from 133 people based on symptoms of arthritis like how swollen and tender the joint became when introduced to certain weather factors like temperature, humidity, pressure, rainfall to name a few. In this study, rheumatoid arthritis disease activity was significantly lower in both sunnier and less humid conditions. (McCormick, McDonald and …show more content…
Extreme cold can lead to hypothermia or frost bite which can also lead to death. Mortality rates are also affected by environmental temperature. Certain diseases like cardiovascular and respiratory issues are extremely sensitive to changing weather conditions which puts people who have these diseases at a higher risk for death. Among deaths attributed to natural cold during 2006–2010, exposure to excessive natural cold was listed as the underlying cause of death for 48%. During that same time period 10,649 deaths were determined to be caused by weather. 188,000 deaths occurred in Germany between 1990 and 2006 from cardiovascular disease the number of deaths increased 9.5 percent when the temperature increased and 7.9 percent when the temperature