A new study calculated that more than 61,000 deaths in Europe could be blamed on the heat during the summer of 2022, the hottest summer on record for the continent
such as heart attacks, irregular heart beats, and even heart failure, few studies have quantified how much heat can contribute to higher mortality.
Using that method, they found that, of the 35 countries investigated, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, the U.K., and Greece recorded the highest number of heat-related deaths during the summer of 2022. Most of these deaths occurred during a five-week heat wave from mid-July to mid-August. By comparison, there were around 40,000 heat-related deaths in Europe in 2018 and 2019, and 33,000 in 2020.
The group also found that in all age and sex groups, countries in the Mediterranean—Italy, Greece, Spain, and Portugal—recorded higher mortality rates than countries in central or northern Europe. Social and economic factors such as the robustness of the health care infrastructure and the design of cities, including the amount of green spaces urban areas contain, could account for some of those differences.
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