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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

Climate extremes may quietly be pushing heart disease rates higher: Study. Risk of heart disease grew about 3% for every day over 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Climate extremes may quietly be pushing heart disease rates higher: Study. Risk of heart disease grew about 3% for every day over 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago
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For every day of heat above 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the risk of heart disease for an individual increased by about 3%, according to researchers.
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  • its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works
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    Eh, I feel like this is a bit misleading. Cortisol is bad for your heart. Unusually high or low temperatures causing stress makes sense. As far as I know people living in the extremes on our planet don’t have worse hearts.

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      For warmer climates, they’re generally probably better off if you can ignore the cortisol/stress of climactic shifts you and this article mentioned. The theory I’ve heard thrown around is that in general the warmth acts as a natural vasodilator.

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        Inuit people actually had significantly lower heart disease than the rest of the world until recently. Smoking increased in the population along with lifestyle changes.

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    What is this in regular normal units (not “freedom” units)?

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      38°C

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      How many heart attacks per waffle house is that?

    • RegularJoe@lemmy.worldOP
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      https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=what+is+100.4+fahrenheit+in+celsius

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        woosh

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    Just to be clear, cold weather does this too

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