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June 25, 2020, 12:20:46 PM |
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The impact of climate on human health has long been known. Already the ancient Greeks noticed the "influence of hot and cold winds" on disease. Today, the impact of climate on human health is being intensively researched, especially in light of the many consequences of climate change. It is believed that a healthy human body can adapt to changes in weather and climate. In the case of extremely high or low temperatures, a person tries to reduce the impact of unfavorable temperature by appropriate clothing or by heating and cooling the space in which he resides. This reduces the stress to which the body is exposed, and thus the body's susceptibility to disease. Changes in weather do not affect all people equally. Given how time affects people, we distinguish three groups:
1. meteorological persons - who respond to changes in weather with depression, neurosis. This group of people is mostly made up of children or the elderly.
2. meteosensitive persons - who react to changes in weather with stress, headaches, anxiety, changes in blood pressure, which often leads to worsening of chronic diseases, if these people have them
3. meteoropate - which are very difficult to adapt to changes in time. They have a common syndrome of exhaustion and irritability that can last up to several days before and after the change of weather
Changes in the weather and extreme situations have the greatest impact on the sick, children and the elderly. This is especially pronounced in the case of heat waves that can have a major impact on mortality. High temperatures mostly affect people with diseases of the vascular, respiratory and immune systems. Surprisingly, the number of deaths from heart attack during heat waves is relatively small compared to the increase in mortality from other diseases.
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