| Title | The month of birth has a seasonal effect in Chinese patients with narcolepsy and cataplexy |
| Authors | Guo, Jingjing Xu, Liyue Wang, Jingyu Li, Chenyang Zhang, Chi Dong, Xiaosong Zuo, Yuhua Wen, Yongfei Xiao, Fulong Spruyt, Karen Han, Fang |
| Affiliation | Peking Univ, Sleep Med Ctr, Dept Resp & Crit Care Med, Peoples Hosp, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China Peking Univ, Sch Nursing, Beijing, Peoples R China Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France |
| Keywords | SLEEP-TIMING PREFERENCES ANTISTREPTOCOCCAL ANTIBODIES POPULATION CHILDREN ONSET |
| Issue Date | 1-Feb-2022 |
| Publisher | JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SLEEP MEDICINE |
| Abstract | Study Objectives: We assessed the yearly seasonal, environmental effects on birth pattern in Chinese patients later diagnosed with narcolepsy and cataplexy and explored if this effect persisted in patients with symptoms onset date before, following, and after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Methods: A total of 1,942 patients with birth data information and diagnosed narcolepsy with cataplexy were included in this study. The birth month and seasonal effect of 1,064 patients born from 1970 to 2000 were compared to controls (n = 2,028,714) from the general population. Furthermore, birth season effect in 1,373 patients with definite disease onset month were compared among patients with onset date before (n = 595), following (from January 2010 to December 2010) (n = 325), and after (n = 453) the H1N1 pandemic. Results: Patients with narcolepsy and cataplexy had a significantly different seasonality from the general population (P = .027). The monthly distribution of birth month yielded a peak in November (odds ratio =1.23 [95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.49], P = .042) and a trough in April (odds ratio = 0.68 [95% confidence interval, 0.52-0.88], P = .004). No significant difference was observed in the birth month across patients with symptom onset dates before, following, and after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic (P = .603). Conclusions: This finding across many years of seasonal effect in Chinese narcolepsy cataplexy supports a role for early-life environmental influences on disease development. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/642382 |
| ISSN | 1550-9389 |
| DOI | 10.5664/jcsm.9626 |
| Indexed | SCI(E) |
| Appears in Collections: | 人民医院 护理学院 |
