Birth seasonality in rural areas of Iran, analysis of 5,536,262 births from 1992 to 2007

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• 作者：Alireza Khajavi ; MSc^a ; ^b ; Farhad Pishgar^a ; ^c ; Mahboubeh Parsaeian ; PhD^a ; ^d ; Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam ; MSc^a ; ^b ; ^e ; Alireza Jeddian ; PhD^f ; Hamid Reza Bahrami-Taghanaki ; PhD^g ; Hamid Reza Jamshidi ; PhD^h ; Shohreh Naderimagham ; PhD^a ; ^b ; ^{sh-naderimagham@sina.tums.ac.ir}
• 关键词：Birth rate ; Birth seasonality ; Climate ; Demography ; Epidemiology ; Periodicity
• 刊名：Annals of Epidemiology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：26
• 期：12
• 页码：846-852.e3
• 全文大小：1342 K
• 卷排序：26

文摘

We conducted this study to investigate birth seasonality in rural parts of Iran.MethodsIn this study, patterns of 5,536,262 live births in rural parts of Iran between 1992 and 2007 were studied. Information about birth numbers, environmental factors, and sociocultural status of participants was obtained from previous works. Visually inspecting the seasonal variation of birth, studying its trend using autocorrelation analysis, examining the trend of birth seasonality using the seasonality coefficient, a newly introduced index, studying correlations between birth seasonality and possible associated factors, and analyzing associations between these variables and birth seasonality using multiple regression model were performed in this study.ResultsIn this study, we showed birth seasonality in rural parts of Iran, with the highest births in the first two seasons, winter and spring, mostly before the year of 2002. Latitude and mean temperature of districts, wealth status of families, education of women, and mothers' ages were associated with birth seasonality. However, latitude, temperature, and mothers' ages lost their associations after adjusting for sociocultural factors in the regression model.ConclusionsBirth numbers in rural areas of Iran follow a rhythmic seasonal pattern; however, the ordering of seasons changes in the last years of the study period.