It's not just heart patients who suffer from heat, experts warn. High temperatures also pose a threat to patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Moreover, even healthy people can start having problems in the heat.
This is the conclusion reached by researchers at the University of California, San Diego. The results of their work were published by MedicalXpress.
In hot weather, the body starts processes aimed at maintaining normal body temperature.
One of these processes is sweating.
At the same time, the heartbeat and blood circulation increase, which also carries oxygen, without which the normal functioning of the body is impossible.
However, it is important to remember that heat poses a danger not only to patients with heart and vascular diseases.
There is a real threat to patients with lung diseases, especially COPD, in which the airways become inflamed and the bronchi swell.
Due to the high intensity of blood circulation in such weather, the load increases not only on the heart, but also on the lungs, which are already under stress.
In addition, in hot weather, fatal outcomes associated with acute renal failure and asthma attacks are possible, and not just heart attacks.
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