Women more at risk from heatwaves than men, experts suggest

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2022-07-18 15:34

Article here. Excerpt:

'Females may be more vulnerable to extreme high temperatures such as the heatwave gripping the UK than males, experts have suggested.

The heatwave plan for England states that those at high risk include the over-75s, babies, young children, people with severe physical or mental illness and females.

The document does not explain why females are on the list, but the UK Health Security Agency pointed to a study in the Netherlands that looked at mortality after various heatwaves and found elderly women are at higher risk than men. The researchers said the results were not simply down to age.'

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What's next, "Females more likely to die of whooping cough while wearing tennis shoes and driving a Mazda?"

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2022-07-18 21:23

A sad poorly written article based on a badly reported study. The study reported inconclusive results, some results showing increased male deaths, some increased female deaths, most non-significant differences between male and female mortality rates. Most difference could be explained by poor male survivorship; i.e. most susectable males were dead at a younger age, and more suseptable women were alive.

Then the study authors go off on some bizzar explanations of why elderly women might be more exposed to heat stress including increased child care responsibility (elderly over 65 women?), unequal house work distribution, in the elderly (when many were living alone?).

OMG, these rubish studies are written for a readership of women who love articles about how unfair life is to women. Its science by Mills anb Boon.

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Submitted by rabel111 on Tue, 2022-07-19 17:19