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Climate change and extreme heat increase risk of stroke

RNZ · last updated

The World Stroke Organisation last week released a warning that climate change, and the environmental factors exacerbated by it, increase the risk of having a stroke. 

In the statement published in the International Journal of Stroke, it also warned patients were at a greater risk of dying from a stroke. 

The risk came from extreme temperatures, temperature variability, humidity, barometric pressure, wildfires, and dust and sandstorms. 

Neurologist and Otago University professor Anna Ranta is a member of the World Stroke Organization’s Board of Directors.

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