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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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[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Inuit people actually had significantly lower heart disease than the rest of the world until recently. Smoking increased in the population along with lifestyle changes.