New Delhi: On the hottest days, there is a risk of admitted to hospital for people with metabolic disorders such as sugar and blood pressure, and obesityThe number of people hospitalized due to rising summer temperatures has increased over the past decade, a new study has found. spain he found extreme Heat It had the greatest impact on people with these conditions.

“There are several reasons to explain this. For example, in obese people, the heat loss response works less efficiently, because body fat acts as an insulator, making them more vulnerable to heat-related disorders.” are made more sensitive,” said Hicham Achebak, a researcher Barcelona Institute for Global Health,

High levels of air pollution appear to make the risk worse hospital admission Researchers said it’s a good option for people with these conditions, including diabetes.

The study also found that on hot days, men had a higher risk of being hospitalised due to injuries, while women had a higher risk of being hospitalised due to infectious, hormonal and metabolic, respiratory or urinary diseases.

“In the event of heat stress, the body activates cutaneous vasodilation (more blood flow to the skin) and sweat production to lose heat. The latter responses vary in people depending on a range of factors such as age, sex or pre- “Existing health conditions can be affected in different ways,” explained Achebak, corresponding author of the study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

“For example, we know that the rate is higher in women.” temperature The threshold above which the sweating mechanism becomes activated and becomes more sensitive to the effects of heat,” he said.

Researchers analyzed data on more than 11.2 million emergency hospital admissions between 2006 and 2019 from 48 provinces of mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands, an archipelago off eastern Spain in the Mediterranean Sea.

Using statistical methods of analysis, the team estimated what effect temperature had on different causes of hospitalization by season (June to September) and province. They also considered daily average temperature and relative humidity as well as air pollutant levels including PM2.5.

High temperature was found to have a “generalized effect on cause-specific hospitalization”.

The researchers said children under the age of one and adults over the age of 85 were most vulnerable, while the risk of hospitalization due to heat increased across all age groups.

“The underlying mechanisms by which heat triggers adverse health outcomes remain unclear, but they appear to be related to how our body regulates its temperature,” Achebak said.

The researchers found that other conditions that increased a person’s risk of being hospitalized due to extreme heat were kidney failure and kidney stones and urinary tract infections.

Heat also was found to increase the risk of hospitalization in people with sepsis, in which chemicals released into the blood to fight infection cause inflammation throughout the body.