MedPage Today (2/23, Grant) reports, “The hottest days on record over the last decade were linked with increased mental health-related emergency department (ED) visits among U.S. adults,” investigators concluded. After using “medical claims data from 2010 to 2019, extreme heat days – the 95th percentile for warm-season temperature distribution,” researchers found they “were associated with a modestly higher rate of ED visits for any mental health condition.” The findings were published online Feb. 23 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Healio (2/23, Gramigna) also covers the study.
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