7. Physical Health
A study showed that weather and even space weather conditions affect a daily number of emergency ambulance calls for elevated arterial blood pressure and women are more sensitive to geomagnetic activity disturbances than men. Another study showed an inverse relationship between atmospheric pressure and blood pressure during the spring and only for systolic blood pressure during winter nights.
Research indicates that being born in fall or winter increases a chance of developing a food allergy, probably due to receiving less sunlight and therefore getting less vitamin D.
Weather-sensitive osteoarthritis patients experience more joint pain than those without. While rainy and cold weather is what these people claim to be sensitive to, it is quite interesting that such patients living in cold and wet climate report lower pain intensity levels than those in warm and wet or warm and dry climate. The theory is that the changes of weather trigger an increase in pain alone and not the prevailing meteorological conditions.
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