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Impact of population aging on future temperature-related mortality at different global warming levels

  • Kai Chen
  • , Evan de Schrijver
  • , Sidharth Sivaraj
  • , Francesco Sera
  • , Noah Scovronick
  • , Leiwen Jiang
  • , Dominic Roye
  • , Eric Lavigne
  • , Jan Kyselý
  • , Aleš Urban
  • , Alexandra Schneider
  • , Veronika Huber
  • , Joana Madureira
  • , Malcolm N. Mistry
  • , Ivana Cvijanovic
  • , Antonio Gasparrini
  • , Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera
  • , Ben Armstrong
  • , Rochelle Schneider
  • , Aurelio Tobias
  • Christofer Astrom, Yuming Guo, Yasushi Honda, Rosana Abrutzky, Shilu Tong, Micheline de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho, Paulo Hilario Nascimento Saldiva, Patricia Matus Correa, Nicolás Valdés Ortega, Haidong Kan, Samuel Osorio, Hans Orru, Ene Indermitte, Jouni J.K. Jaakkola, Niilo Ryti, Mathilde Pascal, Klea Katsouyanni, Antonis Analitis, Fatemeh Mayvaneh, Alireza Entezari, Patrick Goodman, Ariana Zeka, Paola Michelozzi, Francesca de’Donato, Masahiro Hashizume, Barrak Alahmad, Magali Hurtado Diaz, César De la Cruz Valencia, Ala Overcenco, Danny Houthuijs, Caroline Ameling, Shilpa Rao, Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar, Xerxes Seposo, Susana Pereira da Silva, Iulian Horia Holobaca, Fiorella Acquaotta, Ho Kim, Whanhee Lee, Carmen Íñiguez, Bertil Forsberg, Martina S. Ragettli, Yue Liang Leon Guo, Shih Chun Pan, Shanshan Li, Valentina Colistro, Antonella Zanobetti, Joel Schwartz, Tran Ngoc Dang, Do Van Dung, Hanne Krage Carlsen, John Paul Cauchi, Souzana Achilleos, Raanan Raz
  • Yale University
  • Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
  • Universität Bern
  • University of Florence
  • Rollins School of Public Health
  • Shanghai University
  • Population Council
  • Climate Research Foundation (FIC)
  • Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Publica
  • Health Canada
  • University of Ottawa
  • Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
  • German Research Center for Environmental Health
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • National Institute of Health
  • University of Porto
  • Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR)
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • Ca' Foscari University of Venice
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • European Space Agency - ESA
  • European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
  • Spanish Council for Scientific Research
  • Nagasaki University
  • Umeå University
  • Monash University
  • University of Tsukuba
  • Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani
  • Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Queensland University of Technology
  • University of São Paulo
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Fudan University
  • University of Tartu
  • University of Oulu
  • Finnish Meteorological Institute
  • Santé Publique France
  • University of Athens
  • Imperial College London
  • Hakim Sabzevari University
  • Technological University Dublin
  • Brunel University London
  • Department of Epidemiology Lazio Regional Health Service
  • Graduate School of Medicine
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • National Institute of Public Health
  • National Agency for Public Health of the Ministry of Health
  • Centre for Sustainability and Environmental Health
  • Norwegian Institute of Public Health
  • Graduate School of Engineering
  • Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge
  • Babes-Bolay University
  • University of Torino
  • Seoul National University
  • Pusan National University
  • University of Valencia
  • Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Swiss TPH
  • University of Basel
  • National Taiwan University
  • National Health Research Institutes Taiwan
  • University of the Republic
  • University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City
  • University of Gothenburg
  • Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Unit (IDCU)
  • University of Nicosia Medical School
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Resumen

Older adults are generally amongst the most vulnerable to heat and cold. While temperature-related health impacts are projected to increase with global warming, the influence of population aging on these trends remains unclear. Here we show that at 1.5 °C, 2 °C, and 3 °C of global warming, heat-related mortality in 800 locations across 50 countries/areas will increase by 0.5%, 1.0%, and 2.5%, respectively; among which 1 in 5 to 1 in 4 heat-related deaths can be attributed to population aging. Despite a projected decrease in cold-related mortality due to progressive warming alone, population aging will mostly counteract this trend, leading to a net increase in cold-related mortality by 0.1%–0.4% at 1.5–3 °C global warming. Our findings indicate that population aging constitutes a crucial driver for future heat- and cold-related deaths, with increasing mortality burden for both heat and cold due to the aging population.

Idioma originalInglés
Número de artículo1796
PublicaciónNature Communications
Volumen15
N.º1
DOI
EstadoPublicada - dic. 2024

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