Impact of global warming on weight in patients with heart failure during the 2019 heatwave in France

Heatwaves affect human health and should be more and more frequent because of global warming and could lead to increase mortality in general population, especially regarding cardiovascular mortality. During the summer 2019, Europe experienced a strong episode of heatwave. Telemonitoring of patients...

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Published in:ESC Heart Failure 2023-02, Vol.10 (1), p.727-731
Main Authors: Roubille, François, Matzner‐Lober, Eric, Aguilhon, Sylvain, Rene, Max, Lecourt, Laurent, Galinier, Michel, Ricci, Jean‐Etienne, Molinari, Nicolas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Chronic Disease
Clinical research
Ethics
Europe
France
Global Warming
Heart Failure
Heatwaves
Humans
Hypotheses
Life Sciences
Mortality
Observational studies
Pandemics
Patients
Pulmonary arteries
Random variables
Telemonitoring
Temperature
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Summary:Heatwaves affect human health and should be more and more frequent because of global warming and could lead to increase mortality in general population, especially regarding cardiovascular mortality. During the summer 2019, Europe experienced a strong episode of heatwave. Telemonitoring of patients with heart failure (HF) provide an elegant tool to monitor closely the weights, and we assumed to be able to assess our hypothesis through a nationwide telemonitoring system. Here, we hypothesize that (i) there will be a change in patients' weight during the heatwave and (ii) that the telemonitoring would enable us to follow these changes. The change in weight would be a surrogate for clinical worsening (with or without decompensated HF). Briefly, 1420 patients with a median age of 73.0 years and mean weight of 78.1 kg have been included in this analysis. The relationship between temperature and weight is very strong (P 
ISSN:2055-5822
2055-5822
DOI:10.1002/ehf2.14129