Bel Marra Health, well known for offering high-quality, specially formulated vitamins and nutritional supplements, is reporting on new research that confirms the influenza virus is more prominent during the winter months.
Toronto, ON (PRWEB) January 05, 2013
Bel Marra Health, well known for offering high-quality, specially formulated vitamins and nutritional supplements, is reporting on new research that confirms the influenza virus is more prominent during the winter months.
As Bel Marra Health reports in its article (http://www.belmarrahealth.com/immune/explaining-the-universal-flu-vaccine/), the flu can occur all year round, but its health risks and damage may be more pronounced during the winter.
The study, which appeared in a recent edition of the journal Environmental Health involved reviewing the medical records from hospitals of 48 cities around the United States. These medical records provided information on the number of cases of cardiac deaths and influenza from 1999 to 2000. The researchers performed statistical analysis to determine whether there is indeed a connection between the health risks and damage due to influenza during the winter months.
The results of the study showed that there are indeed a higher number of flu cases during the winter months, approximately 34% higher than the rest of the year. More importantly, this increase was also strongly associated with the higher number of cases of cardiac death. It may thus be possible that the immune system of the body may not fully capable of combating the effects of the influenza virus during the cold winter months.
As the Bel Marra Health article says, although the study did not look into the actual capacity of the immune system of people afflicted with the flu during the winter, the researchers proposed that the damage caused by this infection might have been more severe compared to its effects during the summer, spring, or fall seasons.
The researchers have also indicated in the report that the length of day, as well as the amount of sunshine received by most of us during the winter is significantly lower, and this may also have affected the capacity of the body's immune system to combat infections during winter. In addition, the human body is also working on maintaining its internal temperature during the winter and thus, its capacity to combat the presence of a flu virus is generally decreased, resulting in various health risks and damage to the body.
Spokesperson for Bel Marra Health Dr. Victor Marchione says, “Despite the alarming association of the winter season with health damage involving the immune system, the researchers of the study also pointed out that there are still other factors that need to be considered for the increased incidence rates for flu. For example, it is also possible that pollution plays a role in the incidence of flu across the country.”
(SOURCE: “Nationalvon Klot S, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J. Influenza epidemics, seasonality, and the effects of cold weather on cardiac mortality. Environ Health. Dec 2012)
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