Climate change is breaking our hearts

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International researchers say that climate change-related environmental changes are linked with more people dying from heart disease. They reviewed 492 other studies and say that extreme temperatures and hurricanes are associated with more people ending up in hospital or dying from heart disease, and older adults, people from racial and ethnic minorities, and lower-wealth groups were disproportionately affected.

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conference: JAMA Cardiology

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Organisation/s: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA

Funder: This work was supported by the Burke Fellowship from the Harvard Global Health Institute (Dr Kazi) and institutional funds from the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

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