{"id":130561,"date":"2024-05-21T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T04:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/children-are-more-likely-to-be-hospitalised-for-asthma-during-heatwave-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T07:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T04:30:49","slug":"children-are-more-likely-to-be-hospitalised-for-asthma-during-heatwave-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/children-are-more-likely-to-be-hospitalised-for-asthma-during-heatwave-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Children are more likely to be hospitalised for asthma during heatwave, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130561\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nNew research suggests that children may be more likely to be hospitalised for severe asthma complications during a heatwave. It is a problem that is only expected to get worse with climate change. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco looked at health data from children admitted to hospital between June and September &#8211; the region\u2019s warm season &#8211; from 2017 to 2020. They then compared this to temperature data from the patients\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n<p>They defined a heatwave in 18 different ways by looking at the range of temperatures during these times. If temperatures fell in the top 99 per cent, top 97.5 per cent, top 95 per cent and so on, they considered it a heatwave. They also looked at the length of time that high temperatures lasted. The study\u2019s authors found that daytime heatwaves were associated with 19 per cent higher odds of children with asthma being admitted to hospital. Longer durations of heatwaves doubled the chance of a hospital visit.<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t find any associations with night time heatwaves. \u201cWe found that both daily high heat events and extreme temperatures that lasted several days increased the risk of asthma hospital visits,\u201d said corresponding author Morgan Ye from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. \u201cUnderstanding the impacts of climate-sensitive events such as extreme heat on a vulnerable population is key to reducing the burden of disease due to climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ye adds that children and families with lower adaptation capacity &#8211; like those without the financial capacity to reduce the health risks of climate change &#8211; are likely to experience the highest burden. And, even in this coastal part of California where temperatures may not reach the extremes seen elsewhere, even milder extreme heat can significantly impact health. \u201cWe continue to see global temperatures rise due to human-generated climate change, and we can expect a rise in health-related issues as we observe longer, more frequent and severe heat waves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, researchers at Copenhagen University warned that the lives of people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease would be made much harder by climate change. They said that respiratory patients were at risk from impacts like hot and humid air, pollution from events like wildfires, ozone exposure from rain and thunderstorms and humidity from rain storms and flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The report published in the European Respiratory Journal suggests that, while climate change affects everybody\u2019s health, respiratory patients are arguably among the most vulnerable with these impacts becoming a major threat. \u201cThese are people who already experience breathing difficulties and they are far more sensitive to our changing climate. Their symptoms will become worse, and for some this will be fatal,\u201d Professor Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, chair of the European Respiratory Society\u2019s Environment and Health Committee, said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/05\/20\/children-are-more-likely-to-be-hospitalised-for-asthma-during-heatwave-study-finds\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/children-are-more-likely-to-be-hospitalised-for-asthma-during-heatwave-study-finds\/\">Children are more likely to be hospitalised for asthma during heatwave, study finds<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11365,1355,555,614],"class_list":["post-130561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asthma","tag-child","tag-csr-news-en","tag-heatwave"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}