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Health promotion and public health
Extreme temperatures are associated with increased cardiovascular mortality
  1. David Barrett
  1. Correspondence to Professor David Barrett, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK; david.i.barrett{at}york.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103709

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    Commentary on: Alahmad B, Khraishah H, Royé D, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Guo Y, Papatheodorou SI, Achilleos S, Acquaotta F, Armstrong B, Bell ML, Pan SC, de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho M, Colistro V, Dang TN, Van Dung D, De' Donato FK, Entezari A, Guo YL, Hashizume M, Honda Y, Indermitte E, Íñiguez C, Jaakkola JJK, Kim H, Lavigne E, Lee W, Li S, Madureira J, Mayvaneh F, Orru H, Overcenco A, Ragettli MS, Ryti NRI, Saldiva PHN, Scovronick N, Seposo X, Sera F, Silva SP, Stafoggia M, Tobias A, Garshick E, Bernstein AS, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Gasparrini A, Koutrakis P. Associations Between Extreme Temperatures and Cardiovascular Cause-Specific Mortality: Results From 27 Countries. Circulation. 2023 Jan 3;147(1):35-46. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.061832. Epub 2022 Dec 12.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Nurses need to be aware that extreme temperatures—whether hot or cold—increase the likelihood of death from cardiovascular causes.

    • More research is required into links between temperature-related deaths and population characteristics such as socioeconomic status.

    Context

    Extremes in ambient temperature are associated with excess deaths. For example, more than 60 000 excess …

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    • Funding The author has not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests Associate Editor, Editor for EBN.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.