Rising Number of Americans Sent to ERs Last Year During Heat Waves

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As climate change threatens another long hot summer for Americans, new data shows last summer's record-breaking temperatures sent a rising number of people to emergency departments.

As climate change threatens another long hot summer for Americans, new data shows last summer's record-breaking temperatures sent a rising number of people to emergency departments.will continue to be a significant public health concern as climate change results in longer, hotter and more frequent episodes of extreme heat," said a team led by Ambarish Vaidyanathan, a researcher at the National Center for Environmental Health, part of the U.S.

Much of that might be due to the fact that working-age men are more likely to be working outside or in areas without air conditioning.admissions for heat-related illnesses in 2023 exceeded those of prior years on more than a third of summer days, the study found.

 

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