"I just can't get a break..."
Posted on 03/14/2022 11:35:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A spike in hospitalizations for a dangerous low-salt condition is the latest in a growing list of health threats linked to climate change.
An average global temperature increase of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit could lead to a 14% increase in hospitalizations for critically low sodium levels in the blood, a condition called hyponatremia, according to a Swedish study.
Hyponatremia cases increase in the summer months, but the impact of warming temperatures due to climate change was unclear.
To learn more, researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Solna, Sweden, analyzed nine years of data on Swedish adults and identified more than 11,000 hospitalizations for hyponatremia. Most were women. Their median age was 76, meaning half were older, half younger.
The risk was nearly 10 times higher on the hottest days than on the coolest days, with women and the elderly having highest odds. Those 80 and older were 15 times more likely to be hospitalized for hyponatremia during heat waves.
Researchers applied the data to a model forecasting global warming of 1.8 to 3.6 degrees F, which matches projections for 2050 from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The results showed that hospital admissions due to hyponatremia could increase by 6.3% with a 1.8 degree F increase and by 13.9% with a 3.6 degree F increase.
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"I just can't get a break..."
Just like that, low salt is bad and can kill you. My money is on the COVID-Crew running this low-salt warning. They are real pros at about-faces.
Don’t worry, the global warming alarmists aren’t getting utterly desperate, or anything.
I’m not worried. I eat pastrami, ham, corned beef, salami etc.
but the impact of warming temperatures due to climate change was unclear.
‘Climate research’ is among the most unscientific areas of research. Everything is based upon computer modeling, using insufficient variables and an incomplete understanding of what’s being modeled.
Good! I’m on a low sodium diet anyway. Com’n Global Warming, enough with the snow and cold!
They’re moronic, they’re desperate and need the money.
We eat lots of salty snacks here in Florida.
Not surprised.
Elderly usually are on meds that can affect salt, and/or are on low sodium diets.
Women eat sweets way more than salty snacks, and drinking a lot of water over the day, dilutes your sodium levels.
Self correcting - if the oceans rise, have everybody take a sip.
Drinking too much water and diabetes related...not climate change...idiots
Eat more chips.
I think that energy secretary Jennifer Granholm would tell us that we should have switched to pepper...
I stay sodium hydrated by eating lots of potato chips.......
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