Diabetes and climate change: current evidence and implications for people with diabetes, clinicians and policy stakeholders.

ABSTRACT: Climate change will be a major challenge for the world's health systems in the coming decades. Elevated temperatures and increasing frequencies of heat waves, wildfires, heavy precipitation and other weather extremes can affect health in many ways, especially if chronic diseases are already present. Impaired responses to heat stress, including compromised vasodilation and sweating, diabetes-related comorbidities, insulin resistance and chronic low-grade inflammation make people with diabetes particularly vulnerable to environmental risk factors, such as extreme weather events and air pollution. Additionally, multiple pathogens show an increased rate of transmission under conditions of climate change and people with diabetes have an altered immune system, which increases the risk for a wors

SUBMITTER: Ratter-Rieck JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10039694 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature