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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. (abcnews.com)
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[–] machine2918@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Just to be clear, cold weather does this too