Combo of extreme heat, air pollution may increase risk of deadly heart attack: study – GLOBAL

July 26, 2023

The combination of extreme heat and air pollution may significantly increase the risk of having a fatal heart attack, especially among older individuals, according to new research.

The study, published Monday in Circulation, looked at more than 202,000 heart attack deaths between 2015 and 2020 in China. It found that days with extreme heat, extreme cold or high levels of fine particle air pollution were significantly associated with the risk of a fatal heart attack.

“Extreme temperature events are becoming more frequent, longer and more intense, and their adverse health effects have drawn growing concern,” senior author Yuewei Liu, an associate professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health at Sun Yat-sen University in China, said in a press release.

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