Climate change an escalating threat to brain health: World Stroke Organization
NEW DELHI: (Apr 30) Climate change poses an escalating threat to brain health, with extreme heat, rapid humidity shifts and exposure to dust and sandstorms increasing the risk of having a stroke, according to a scientific statement by experts from the World Stroke Organization.
Published in the International Journal of Stroke, the statement summarises the latest evidence on the association between stroke and the environmental factors exacerbated by climate change, including extreme temperatures, temperature variability, humidity, dust and sandstorms, among others.
Senior lead author Anna Ranta, professor from the University of Otago’s department of medicine, New Zealand, and a member of the World Stroke Organization’s board of directors, said an unstable climate increases the risk both of having a stroke and of patients dying as a result
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