[Correlation of labor onset, membrane rupture and birth with meteorological events]. / Korrelation von Wehenbeginn, Blasensprung und Geburt mit meteorologischen Ereignissen.

UNLABELLED: The birth-physiological events: beginning of labour, rupture of membranes and delivery of 6 539 cases in the years 1976 to 1981 can be correlated with five groups of weather situations: no definite pressure gradient, anticyclonic, meridional, zonal mild maritime, and cyclonic. THE RESULTS: temporary increase of the frequency of births in weather with no definite pressure gradient in summer, in anticyclonic weather in winter and in cyclonic weather in the first half of the year, correspond only partly (namely for the changes within the group of cyclonic weather) with the temporarily increasing number of births during a weather front, as it ist known from experience. The causes of the correlations found out are unknown, and the setting up of a statistical model and consequently an obstestrical-metereological forecast is impossible for the time being.

Influence of aerobiology and weather on symptoms in children with asthma.

Local and central European weather, pollen (Castanea and Poaceae) and spore (alternaria and cladosporium) counts, and asthmatic complaints and drug requirements (expressed as "attack score") were correlated in a group of 40 asthmatic children (21 with recurrent symptoms) during a summer holiday camp for 6 weeks. It was shown that there are significant correlations between the cumulative 24-hour pollen count over 6 weeks and the attack frequency. 2-Hourly counts or daily counts did not correlate with complaints. Consecutive 10-day averages of attacks and pollen and spore counts showed good agreement. The influence of local weather was negligible. Low pressure gradients or high atmospheric pressure was not beneficial. Improvements of lung function are ascribed to training effects.

[Influence of the weather on the course of lumbar syndromes]. / Der Einfluss des Wetters auf den Verlauf von Lumbalsyndromen.

Sensation of pain during lumbar syndromes is correlated with weather situations, the definition of which takes into consideration traditional as well as new methods of weather classification. To this end, it was necessary to develop an algesia index for the purpose of defining the subjective pain sensation by classifying it in different groups enabling the application of medico-meteorological statistics. The medical data were correlated with the following meteorological arametes: Weather-phase scheme according to Brezowsky-Ungeheuer; temperature-humidity environment; weather situations for Central Europe; synoptic index cycle; advention of temperature in medium altitudes of the atmosphere; vorticity for cyclogenesis. The following results were obtained: Pain sensation in the lumbar area shows a significant dependence on weather situations. Althoguh singular meteorological parameters are not important, the human body is affected primarily by the sum total of all weather elements.

[Studies in medical meteorology at the "Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik" at Vienna (author's transl)]. / Medizin-Meteorologische Studien an der Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik in Wien.

Weather situations connected with small pressure gradients show a statistically significant correlation with the liability to heart-attacks. Changes from cyclonic to anticyclonic situations with descending air-motion lead to a rise of the number of heart-attacks in summer. In winter the change from anticyclonic to cyclonic pressure distributions seems to be critical.