Short-Term Associations Between Relative Humidity and Pediatric Afebrile Seizure Presentations: A Distributed Lag Non-Linear Time-Series Study
Fatih Battal, Gizem Demirtas, Zahide Acar · 2026
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Fatih Battal, Gizem Demirtas, and Zahide Acar studied in 2026 whether weather tracks with child seizures that occur without fever. Records came from a child emergency unit in northwestern Turkiye over five years. The main weather test used cases from 2023 linked to daily weather data.
Among 157 such visits from sixty-seven children, humidity showed the strongest link. Each rise of ten points in relative humidity was tied to a rate about nineteen percent higher. A lag model also found a delayed effect over three days. Heat and rain gave less steady results. The authors call the findings group-level clues, not a basis to predict risk for one child.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Fatih Battal, Gizem Demirtas, Zahide Acar |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |