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Search for link between achy joints and rainy weather in a flood of data comes up dry. Rainy weather has long been blamed for achy joints. Unjustly so, according to new research from Harvard Medical School. The analysis, in BMJ, found no relationship between rainfall and joint or back pain.
The notion that certain symptoms and weather go hand in hand has persisted since antiquity. The newly published analysis led by Anupam Jena of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy, used a “big data” approach, linking insurance claims from millions of doctor’s visits with daily rainfall totals from thousands of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather stations.
“No matter how we looked at the data, we di...
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