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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Environmental Health and Exposome
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1423698
This article is part of the Research Topic The Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Public Health View all 8 articles

Correlation between Night Sweats and Season Fluctuation in China

Provisionally accepted
Cai Chen Cai Chen 1Meng Li Meng Li 2*Fulai Peng Fulai Peng 1*Danyang Lv Danyang Lv 1*Chongxuan Tian Chongxuan Tian 3Xiangwei Meng Xiangwei Meng 3*Tiefeng Sun Tiefeng Sun 4Fengxia Wu Fengxia Wu 3*Wei Li Wei Li 3*Ping Wang Ping Wang 4*Xiao Ding Xiao Ding 5Weilian Ren Weilian Ren 6*Yi Wang Yi Wang 4*Haitao Du Haitao Du 4
  • 1 Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jinan, China
  • 2 Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
  • 3 Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
  • 4 Shandong Academy of Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
  • 5 Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
  • 6 Jinan Children's Hospital, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

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    Background: Night sweats are a condition in which an individual sweats excessively during sleep without awareness, and stops when they wake up. Prolonged episodes of night sweats might result in the depletion of trace elements and nutrients, affecting the growth and development of children. Purpose: To investigate the relationship between sweat nights and season. Method: The Internet search index for night sweats in Zhengzhou, China was obtained from the Baidu index during 2011-2022. Meteorological factors, including ambient temperature, humidity, pressure, precipitation and average wind speed in Zhengzhou were obtained from the website https://en.tutiempo.net/climate. A time series decomposition model was used to study the relationship between night sweats and seasonality. Continuous wavelet transform and cross wavelet transform were utilized to explore the relationship between night sweats and meteorological factors. Result: A typical periodic pattern is evident in the seasonal trend. Specifically, following a peak in January each year, there is a rapid decline followed by a secondary peak, after which a trough occurs. The search index of night sweats increased rapidly in the first stage, slowed down in the second stage, and showed negative growth from 2011 to 2014. The correlation coefficients between the search index for night sweats and atmospheric pressure pressure as well as average temperature, are 0.25 and -0.26, respectively. Conclusion: Night sweat was connected with season. Specifically, the number of night sweat search index increased in the cold season and declined in the summer season. Night sweat was negatively connected with temperature but favorably correlated with air pressure.

    Keywords: Night sweat, Season, Internet search index, Baidu index, Time series decomposition, Wavelet Transform

    Received: 26 Apr 2024; Accepted: 26 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Chen, Li, Peng, Lv, Tian, Meng, Sun, Wu, Li, Wang, Ding, Ren, Wang and Du. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Meng Li, Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, 250001, Shandong Province, China
    Fulai Peng, Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jinan, China
    Danyang Lv, Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jinan, China
    Xiangwei Meng, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, Shandong Province, China
    Fengxia Wu, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, Shandong Province, China
    Wei Li, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, Shandong Province, China
    Ping Wang, Shandong Academy of Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
    Weilian Ren, Jinan Children's Hospital, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
    Yi Wang, Shandong Academy of Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

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