EFEITO DA SAZONALIDADE CLIMÁTICA NAS HOSPITALIZAÇÕES POR DOENÇA RESPIRATÓRIA NA CIDADE DE ANÁPOLIS-GO ENTRE 2002 E 2012

Objective: To evaluate the influence of meteorological variables in the number of hospitalizations for pneumonia and bronchial respiratory disease in children, adolescents and adults in the city of Anápolis from 2002 to 2012. Methods: A retrospective analytical study based on DATASUS data and the climate data of the Meteorological System of Goias. Results: During ten years occurred 31,001 hospitalizations of respiratory disease. The median hospitalization in fall was greater than the median hospitalization of other seasons only for the group of children and adolescents (p = 0.0001). A multiple linear regression model showed that the maximum temperature and maximum relative humidity predict almost 20% of the number of asthma hospitalizations in children and adolescents: the number of hospitalizations for asthma = 1,89maximum relative humidity - 3,37maximum temperature - 29, 3 (r2 = 0.20, p