Extreme heat and cold hit some people far harder, and it's not just about illness

The Medical News · 3h ago

Researchers analysing 285,444 adults in Finland and the UK found that excess mortality associated with extreme heat and cold was more than tenfold higher among people with both pre-existing medical conditions and socioeconomic disadvantage than among those with neither or only one vulnerability. Climate modelling suggested that warming from approximately 1°C to 4°C could increase the proportion…

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Extreme heat and cold hit some people far harder, and it's not just about illness

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