AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to determine the seasonal variation in hospitalisation for @entity1576 in a tertiary care centre in the tropical rain forest zone of South Western Nigeria. @entity1 AND METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed to the determine the seasonal variation of @entity1576 hospitalised in Federal Medical Centre in Ido-Ekiti, Nigeria from November, 2006 to October 2009. Data were extracted from the medical records of hospitalized @entity1 who had acute exacerbation of @entity1030 ( @entity1030 ), @entity565 , @entity55 and @entity1907 ( @entity1907 ). RESULTS: Two hundred and thirty three @entity1 aged >=  15 years hospitalised for @entity1576 were analysed, 68(29.2%) had @entity1907 , 66(28.3%) had @entity55 , and 61(26.2%) had @entity565 while 38(16.3%) @entity1 had @entity1030 . The mean age of the @entity1 was 47.8 19.6 years. Monthly mean of hospitalisation for @entity55 (8.00 vs.3.86; p=<O. 001) and acute exacerbation of @entity1030 (4.60 vs.2.50; p=O.004) were significantly higher in dry season, while that of @entity565 (5.29 vs.4.80; p=0.338) and @entity1907 (5.71 vs.5.60; p=0.898) were higher in the rainy (wet) season, although seasonality of @entity565 and @entity1907 was less pronounced and not significant. CONCLUSION: The hospitalisation of @entity565 and @entity1907 were higher during the rainy (wet) @entity55 and acute exacerbation of @entity1030 were higher during the dry season. The outcome of this study may help to identify seasonal disease-modifying factors associated with hospitalisation of @entity1576 . Furthermore, identifications of these variations are important for efficient allocation of health-care resources based on seasonal hospitalisation trend.

Seasonal variation in hospitalisation for XXXX in the tropical rain forest of South Western Nigeria.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'PATIENTS', 'people'] @entity55 :: ('MESH:D011014', 'Disease') :: ['pneumonia', 'season while pneumonia'] @entity565 :: ('MESH:D001249', 'Disease') :: ['asthma'] @entity1576 :: ('MESH:D012131', 'Disease') :: ['respiratory diseases', 'respiratory disease'] @entity1030 :: ('MESH:D029424', 'Disease') :: ['chronic obstructive pulmonary disease', 'COPD'] @entity1907 :: ('MESH:D014397', 'Disease') :: ['pulmonary tuberculosis', 'PTB']
@entity1576 :: (MESH:D012131,Disease) :: ['respiratory diseases']
