Older women more vulnerable to heat than their male peers, researchers find
September 03, 2024
September 03, 2024
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Sept. 3 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. As global climate change causes extreme heat waves to become more common around the world, epidemiological studies have shown that heat kills more women than men. Now, a new study by researchers at Penn State has found that older women are physiologically more vulnerable to high heat and humidity than older men, and that women between the ages of 40 and 64 are as v . . .
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. As global climate change causes extreme heat waves to become more common around the world, epidemiological studies have shown that heat kills more women than men. Now, a new study by researchers at Penn State has found that older women are physiologically more vulnerable to high heat and humidity than older men, and that women between the ages of 40 and 64 are as v . . .