2023 Volume 60 Issue 1 Pages 15-22
The purpose of this study is clarifying the regional and meteorological characteristics of weather-related pain in Japan. Symptom data was made from reports which Weathernews’ smartphone application users had sent since June 2020.Totally 434,409 symptom data in the period from 1st June 2020 to 31st December 2022 was collected to evaluate susceptibility of weather-related pain in 47 prefectures. Also three types of pressure indexes, each having different wave cycles: micro-pressure fluctuation (MPF), synoptic scale low pressure impact, and semidiurnal atmospheric tide, were made to research relevance between weather-related pain and the types of pressure indexes.
These data revealed that two out of three pressure indexes marked high scores in Yamagata and Yamanashi prefectures, and these prefectures also marked high scores of weather-related pain suffered index.
