A Prospective Cohort Study of Bedroom Warming With a Heating System and Its Association With Common Infectious Diseases in Children During Winter in Japan.

Journal of Epidemiology
Fuyu MiyakeYoshihisa Fujino

Abstract

Customarily, bedrooms in Japan are left unheated. Although several studies have reported that the use of a heating system has positive outcomes on respiratory infection and asthma, the preventive effect of heating systems against infectious diseases in children is not well known. We conducted a cohort study using two questionnaire surveys, one before the winter season in November, 2018 and the second after winter in March, 2019. Participants were 155 children who did not use a heating system in the bedroom and 156 children who did. Having a heated bedroom with a heating system was associated with decreased odds for the frequency of cold (≥3 times) (adjust odds ratio [AOR] 0.35; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.19-0.65), duration of fever (≥3 days) (AOR 0.38; 95% CI, 0.22-0.66), duration of medicine for a cold (≥3 days) (AOR 0.91; 95% CI, 0.87-0.95), hospital visit due to cold (≥3 days) (AOR 0.54; 95% CI, 0.31-0.94), absence from school or nursery (≥3 days) (AOR 0.43; 95% CI, 0.27-0.70), influenza infection (AOR 0.43; 95% CI, 0.26-0.71), and gastroenteritis (AOR 0.39; 95% CI, 0.21-0.72). Influenza vaccination reduced the odds of influenza infection (AOR 0.36; 95% CI, 0.22-0.59) and absence from school or nursery (≥3 days) (AOR 0....Continue Reading

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