Simple Strategies to Reduce Cardiac Strain in Older Adults in Extreme Heat

Chaseling, GK, Vargas, NT, Hospers, L, Barry, H, Harwood, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5745-2564, Graham, C, Bartlett, AA, Debray, A, Lynch, G, Capon, A, Crandall, CG, Fiatarone Singh, M, Mavros, Y, Bi, P, Nigam, A, Chabot-Blanchet, M, Gagnon, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5396-9489 and Jay, O ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6076-6337 (2024) Simple Strategies to Reduce Cardiac Strain in Older Adults in Extreme Heat. The New England Journal of Medicine, 391 (18). pp. 1754-1756. ISSN 0028-4793

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Abstract

In this crossover trial in older adults with or without coronary artery disease, cardiac strain was reduced with fan use, skin wetting, or both in hot and humid conditions but worsened with fan use in very hot and dry conditions.