Italian Journal of Pediatrics

Table 3 Associations of HRVs incidence and meteorological factors

From: Clinical and epidemiological profiles including meteorological factors of low respiratory tract infection due to human rhinovirus in hospitalized children

	total HRVs				HRVs without coinfection				HRV-C
Climate factors	correlation		Multivariate regression		correlation		Multivariate regression		correlation		Multivariate regression
	r_s	P value	β	P value	r_s	P value	β	P value	r_s	P value	β	P value
Temperature (°C)	0.545	0.001	0.304	0.001	0.648	<0.001	0.709	0.002	0.660	0.019	1.002	0.032
Relative humidity (%)	0.041	0.811	−0.028	0.850	0.030	0.860	−0.262	0.326	0.268	0.399	−0.041	0.946
Total rainfall (mm)	0.322	0.056	0.113	0.482	0.360	0.031	0.173	0.345	0.109	0.736	−0.747	0.176
Sum of sunshine (h)	0.166	0.332	−0.039	0.804	0.212	0.215	−0.174	0.549	−0.111	0.731	−0.503	0.368
Wind velocity (m/s)	0.168	0.328	−0.012	0.940	0.106	0.537	−0.111	0.454	−0.067	0.837	0.130	0.667

P < 0.05 indicates significant difference
HRV human rhinovirus

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