Experts reveal link between heatwaves and dementia (www.bbc.com)

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The paper is here and the press release is here

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[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah seriously though our uk heatwaves barely reach the average summer temp in most of the US, either this article is ridiculous or 80% of the world's population need to move.

Also we're only noticing now? Surely there's a huge disparity in elder health between say us and Italy which is routinely hotter than our heatwaves - ive always been lead to believe Italy has the healthiest old people, though that does mostly come from olive oil adverts...

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