Urgent warning as freezing temperatures 'increases risk of silent killer' - the four signs to watch for
"This may be explained by the progressive nature of heart failure as a disease, rendering patients susceptible to temperature effects.
"This is an important finding since one out of four people with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, and only 20 per cent of patients with heart failure survive 10 years after diagnosis."Heart failure means that the heart is unable to pump blood around the body properly, the NHS says.says there are four key symptoms you should know.
The experts looked at cardiovascular deaths on both the hottest and coldest days across 567 cities in 27 countries on five continents. For every 1,000 cardiovascular deaths, the researchers found that extreme cold days accounted for 9.1 additional deaths.Heart failure had the greatest number of deaths, accounting for 12.8 additional deaths on extreme cold days."One in every 100 cardiovascular deaths may be attributed to extreme temperature days, and temperature effects were more pronounced when looking at heart failure deaths," Khraishah added.
According to the British Heart Foundation , heart and circulatory diseases are responsible for 160,000 deaths each year in the UK.There are around 7.6 million people living with a heart or circulatory disease in the UK, four million men and 3.6 million women, the experts said.
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