Extreme temperatures are linked to an increased stroke mortality risk, especially for those in low-income countries.
Extreme temperatures are linked to an increased risk for stroke mortality, and people who live in low-income parts of the world are disproportionately affected, results of a new multinational study of almost 6 million strokes suggested."Our findings are another step toward understanding the effects of climate change on stroke," lead author Barrak Alahmad, MD, MPH, PhD, research fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, said in a news release.
Using the Multi-Country Multi-City Network, a global environmental health consortium, the research team behind this current study built a new stroke mortality database that allowed them to more broadly compare temperature and stroke outcomes and analyze those outcomes based on a country's wealth. The team computed excess deaths in each city that are attributable to the 2.5% hottest and coldest days based on each city's temperature distribution.
Low-income countries, measured by gross domestic product per capita, were at an increased risk for elevated heat-related hemorrhagic stroke mortality compared with higher-income countries (Though evidence suggested that low-income countries may be more seriously affected by extreme cold as well, the findings were not conclusive. The study did not find a relationship between countries' gross domestic product and risk for temperature-related ischemic stroke mortality.
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