A broad range of brain conditions, from migraines to strokes, are made worse by extreme heat, new research shows.
“At high temperatures you have less oxygen being transported and metabolic processes to end up stressing a lot of different systems that keep the brain functioning normally," he said.between climate change and neurological disorders back in the early 2010s. , but extreme heat also is associated with increased pollution that compounds the probability of having a stroke. High temperatures also can interrupt sleep and disrupt supply chains for medication.
, when saying: “In the 2003 European heat wave, around 20 percent of the excess deaths were of people with neurological conditions.” In comparison, onlySisodiya added that the 2022 heat waves also resulted in a high proportion of heat-related deaths in the U.K. “due to neurological conditions.”that “dementia and Alzheimer's disease was the leading cause of excess deaths in England and Wales during 2022 heat-periods.