Cardiovascular Mortality and Exposure to Heat in an Inherently Hot Region: Implications for Climate Change

Circulation. 2020 Apr 14;141(15):1271-1273. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.044860. Epub 2020 Mar 30.

Barrak Alahmad^{1

2}, Haitham Khraishah^{3

4}, Ahmed F Shakarchi⁵, Mazen Albaghdadi³, Sanjay Rajagopalan⁶, Petros Koutrakis¹, Farouc A Jaffer³

¹ Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA (B.A., P.K.).
² Environmental and Occupational Health Department, Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait University, Kuwait City (B.A.).
³ Cardiovascular Research Center, Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (H.K.. M.A., F.A.J.).
⁴ Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (H.K.).
⁵ Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (A.F.S.).
⁶ University Hospitals, Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (S.R.).

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Keywords: Kuwait; Middle East; cardiovascular diseases; climate change; environmental epidemiology; mortality rate; temperature.

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