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Dr. Craig Crandall, Professor of Inside Drugs. Credit score: UT Southwestern Medical Heart Utilizing electrical followers to alleviate excessive ranges of warmth and humidity could, surprisingly, have the other impact for seniors, a research by UT Southwestern Medical Heart coronary heart specialists suggests. The center fee and inside temperature of seniors uncovered to 107 diploma Fahrenheit temperatures and growing humidity ranges climbed even larger once they tried to chill off with followers -- as a substitute of falling as anticipated, in accordance with research findings reported in  JAMA . "Though variations have been small, the cumulative impact may develop into clinically vital throughout extended warmth publicity, reminiscent of throughout excessive warmth waves," mentioned Dr. Craig Crandall, Professor of Inside Drugs at UT Southwestern and with the Institute for Train and Environmental Drugs at Texas Well being Pres...

An irregular heartbeat (referred to as atrial fibrillation) is related to a variety of great occasions, together with coronary heart assaults, coronary heart failure , continual kidney illness, and sudden cardiac demise, finds a big examine in  The BMJ  this week. The findings present that the chance related to many of those occasions is larger than that of stroke -- a identified threat of atrial fibrillation -- prompting the researchers to name for interventions to scale back the chance of non-stroke outcomes in adults with the situation. It's already identified that atrial fibrillation is related to an elevated threat of stroke and demise, in addition to increased medical prices and a decreased high quality of life. However the affiliation between atrial fibrillation and cardiovascular occasions aside from stroke is much less clear. So a group of researchers primarily based on the College of Oxford within the UK and the Massachusetts Insti...