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2. Heart attacks spike every Christmas. How cold weather, big ...

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   Cold weather, big meals, booze and stress can create a dangerous combination when it comes to cardiovascular risks, experts say. Heart attacks spike every Christmas. How cold weather, big meals ...

3. Study Finds This Type of Weather Doubles Heart Attack Risk ...

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   On the other extremes of temperature, the risk of deadly heart attack was 4% higher during two-day cold periods with temperatures at or below 33.33 to 40.5 degrees and 12% higher than usual during ...

4. Heart attacks more likely when weather is frigid - AOL

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   Based on more than a decade and a half of medical and weather data, researchers linked an increased incidence of heart attacks to lower air temperatures, lower atmospheric pressure, higher wind ...

5. Hypothermia - Wikipedia

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   Hypothermia has two main types of causes. It classically occurs from exposure to cold weather and cold water immersion. It may also occur from any condition that decreases heat production or increases heat loss. [1] Commonly, this includes alcohol intoxication but may also include low blood sugar, anorexia and advanced age.

6. Cold shock response - Wikipedia

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   The cold water can cause heart attack due to severe vasoconstriction, [2] where the heart has to work harder to pump the same volume of blood throughout the arteries. For people with pre-existing cardiovascular disease, the additional workload can result in myocardial infarction and/or acute heart failure, which ultimately may lead to a cardiac ...

7. Cold injury - Wikipedia

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   Cold injury (or cold weather injury) is damage to the body from cold exposure, including hypothermia and several skin injuries. [6] Cold-related skin injuries are categorized into freezing and nonfreezing cold injuries. [5] Freezing cold injuries involve tissue damage when exposed to temperatures below freezing (less than 0 degrees Celsius).

8. 'Life-threatening' cold weather to expand southward across ...

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   The relentless and bitterly cold air is on track to return in earnest across a wide swath of the nation this week. Residents from the northern Plains to even the Gulf Coast will have noticeably ...

9. Cold weather advisory - Wikipedia

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   A cold weather advisory (formerly known as a wind chill advisory until October 2024) [1] is a hazardous weather statement issued by Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) of the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States to alert the public that temperatures or wind chills are forecast to reach values low enough that it poses a threat to human health and life if adequate protection is not ...