Implicações da sazonalidade sobre as coronariopatias no compartimento da Borborema-PB.

Abstract

The beginning of the 21th century has been marked by significant discussions on climate change, its origins and its implications on biodiversity. Recent studies point to the perception emblematic of the relationship between atmospheric variables and the health of humans, pointing to the need to broaden our understanding of the specifics of that relationship so that mitigation measures involving the use of weather and climate information can be taken by public health services and the general population, since the effects of atmospheric conditions, such as slow climate fluctuations that cause migration, seasonal extremes of time, causing hunger, and the various disasters that lead to death and destruction can be considered as phenomena of global magnitude. In this context, this study aims to investigate heart disease aggravated by climatic variations in Borborema’s Compartment – PB. As regards the methodology, we used a quantitative approach, not experimental, exploratory, cross country and held by the application of questionnaires to cardiac patients and medical charts of João XXIII Hospital in the period February 2010 to February 2012. The original sample corresponded to 100% of the total (n = 712). For data analysis, the method used was the Pearson correlation coefficient is a measure of the degree of linear relationship between two quantitative variables. Were considered for this study, the maximum temperature, minimum and average meteorological station provided by the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET), located on the premises of EMBRAPA / Cotton, in Campina Grande (PB). In the results, they showed no statistically significant correlations between the relevant coronary morbidity and temperature, which partially confirms the hypothesis that climate variability has little influence in the region surveyed in triggering and / or aggravation of coronary artery disease.