Impacts of Climatic Seasonal Variations on Cardiovascular Diseases: A Prospective Sahelian Study in Niger with an Overview in Different Areas of the World

This chapter reveals the impact of seasonal climatic variations on cardiovascular pathologies at HNABD. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) refers to the disorders that affects the heart and blood vessels. It is an important public health issue because they constitute the most reported cases for death across the world. This is a prospective and comparative study which has done over four months between the cold season (January- February) and the hot season (April-May) 2016. It took place over four months in the HNABD medicine- cardiology department. The study population consists of all patients hospitalized in the department during the period. It concerned 258 patients hospitalized in the medicine-cardiology department during this period in whom the diagnosis of cardiovascular pathologies has been made. Through this work, we have studied the epidemiological, clinical, paraclinical, therapeutic, evolutionary aspects and finally the impact of climatic and seasonal variations on cardiovascular pathologies. Data collection was manual, through providing an individual survey form. Data analysis and processing were carried out using Word 2010, EXCEL 2010, CSPro6.2, IBM SPSS 20.