ANALYSISThe association was strongest where the air was worst — which is the tell. A parallel US survey finds the indoor facilities are the ones vanishing from low-income neighbourhoods.
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ANALYSISOne study screened 916,904 acute-care visits to find which diagnoses actually rise with extreme heat. Another, in Phoenix, asks a prior question: who calls for help at all.
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ANALYSISA UK survey of 26,322 urban adults finds a small but consistent life-satisfaction gain from neighbourhood greenery. A Stockholm study of 46,282 shows who ends up living without it.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSA registry study spanning 4.9 million people separates where the most deaths occur from where the inequality is largest. Heart disease and lung disease give different answers.
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ANALYSISThe ESC Atlas reports 68 million disability-adjusted life years and more than three million cardiovascular deaths a year, with middle-income countries carrying roughly double the mortality of high-income ones.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSAn analysis of 104 trials found a 10 to 20 percent reduction under some diagnostic criteria and none under UK criteria. A separate review found a GDM diagnosis is not associated with more stillbirths.
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ANALYSISTwo November burden analyses put diabetes diagnosed before 40 on an upward path to 2050. In the Americas, Central Latin America carried the highest rates and men carried more of the burden than women.
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ANALYSISA global analysis separates exposure inequality from mortality inequality and finds they run in opposite directions between countries, and sometimes within them.
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THE HEAT MAPAbout 1,009 deaths a year were attributable to heatwaves in 2016-2019. Queensland and New South Wales carried rates more than three times Western Australia's.
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