HUMIDITY AND HOT WEATHER

Hot Weather Expeditions in Afghanistan

in England. The course thus adopted cut short the rather animated discussions of the Home papers on the subject, and for the present the question as to the best means, direct and indirect, of protecting the soldier from the effects of unavoidable exposure to heat is left in the stage of theory. Under these circumstances Indian experiences might reasonably be expected to afford a clue to the pre...

Drowning and the Influence of Hot Weather

BACKGROUND Drowning deaths are devastating and preventable. Public perception does not regard hot weather as a common scenario for drowning deaths. The objective of our study was to test the association between hot weather and drowning risk. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a retrospective case-crossover analysis of all unintentional drowning deaths in Ontario, Canada from 1999 to 2009. Dem...

Does hot weather affect human fertility?

Research finds that hot weather causes a fall in birth rates nine months later. Evidence suggests that this decline in births is due to hot weather harming reproductive health around the time of conception. Birth rates only partially rebound after the initial decline. Moreover, the rebound shifts births toward summer months, harming infant health by increasing third trimester exposure to hot we...

Pleasant Hot Weather in Calcutta in 1949

the relationship between overweight and heart rate in hot and very hot weather under controlled conditions

conclusions the mean heart rate was higher in participants who were overweight than those with normal weight. results the mean and standard deviation of the heart rate in the hot climatic condition and moderate exercise were 103.84 (3.34) for normal weight subjects and 108.67 (3.27) for overweight subjects. the mean and standard deviation of the heart rate in a very hot climatic condition and l...