(Bloomberg)-The scientists warned that older and other vulnerable groups in the UK are threatened by heat-related deaths this weekend, as the new study shows that recent high temperatures could get 570 lives in just over four days.
Scientists from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Imperial College London, who published a real -time analysis on Saturday, which calculated the number of heat -related deaths from Thursday to Sunday.
Their study, which combined the risk of mortality with weather forecasts, estimated that high and lasting temperatures could cause 114 deaths on Thursday 152 on Friday, with 303 other potential deaths at the weekend.
Saturday is expected to be the smallest day with an estimate of 266 heat -related deaths, almost half of which could be recorded in London, according to scientists.
“Our study should be considered a warning,” said Malcolm Masters, who participated in the study and taught at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “The exposure to temperatures at a high 20 or low 30 years may not seem dangerous, but may be fatal, especially in people over 65 years, infants, pregnant people and people with existing health.”
The death of heat is notorious to monitor. While many diseases are deteriorating with rising temperatures, many people who lose their lives in thermal waves, “rarely have a contribution to death,” said Garyfallos Konstantinadis, lecturer at Imperial College London.
This week, the United Kingdom is experiencing unusually intense and permanent heat for the season and provokes a warning from the health authorities. Global warming has increased the chances of early heat wave from once every 50 years in pre -industrial climate for every five years, a team of scientists at Imperial College and the world group for assignment in a separate study published on Friday.
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