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CHINESE JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 182-186Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s11655-012-1239-z
Keywords
bacillary dysentery; meteorological factors; Chinese medicine; the theory of Yunqi; back-propagation artificial neural net-work; medical-meteorological forecast model
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81072896]
- Beijing University of Chinese Medicine [2009JYZZ-JS001]
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To explore the impact of meteorological factors on the outbreak of bacillary dysentery, so as to provide suggestions for disease prevention. Based on the Chinese medicine theory of Yunqi, the descriptive statistics, single-factor correlation analysis and back-propagation artificial neural net-work were conducted using data on five basic meteorological factors and data on incidence of bacillary dysentery in Beijing, China, for the period 1970-2004. The incidence of bacillary dysentery showed significant positive correlation relationship with the precipitation, relative humidity, vapor pressure, and temperature, respectively. The incidence of bacillary dysentery showed a negatively correlated relationship with the wind speed and the change trend of average wind speed. The results of medical-meteorological forecast model showed a relatively high accuracy rate. There is a close relationship between the meteorological factors and the incidence of bacillary dysentery, but the contributions of which to the onset of bacillary dysentery are different to each other.
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