Summary
A new study in Science Advances finds that prolonged heat exposure accelerates aging at the molecular level, similar to smoking and drinking.
Researchers analyzed DNA from 3,600 older adults and found those in hotter areas, like Phoenix, aged 14 months faster than those in cooler places.
Heat-induced “epigenetic aging” increases risks for diseases like dementia and heart problems. Climate change is worsening heat exposure, especially for older adults, further straining health systems.
Scientists aim to study how indoor heat affects health and explore ways to mitigate long-term damage.
You are exaggerating. No, the people of Phoenix would not die if the AC went out for two weeks during summer heat. They have thousands of homeless people that do it every year.
Living in Phoenix is significantly safer when looking at natural disaster risk than a significant portion of everywhere else in the country.
No I am not not exaggerating
https://www.wired.com/story/a-grid-collapse-would-make-a-heat-wave-far-deadlier/
Survey says!
https://www.azfamily.com/2024/08/16/100-phoenix-area-heat-deaths-because-ac-wasnt-working-or-wasnt/
buzzer noise
Wrong answer!
You’re doing survivorship bias.
And you’re also assuming those homeless people… are the same homeless people, and are not dying outside and being replaced by new homeless people, yet still growing overall in number over time.