Burden of cardiovascular disease attributable to high temperature exposure and a warming climate in Australia

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This commentary refers to ‘High temperature and cardiovascular disease in Australia under different climatic, demographic, and adaptive scenarios’, by J. Liu et al., https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf117 and the discussion piece ‘High temperatures increase the burden of cardiovascular disease in Australia’, by Y. Su et al., https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf1013. We thank Su and colleagues for their Correspondence, which offers insightful comments on a recent publication from our research team on the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) attributable to high temperature exposure under different climatic, demographic, and adaptive scenarios.1 Their letter provides us with the opportunity to discuss certain aspects in more detail and to clarity specific contextual and methodological issues. Effects of non-optimal ambient temperature. We agree that non-optimal ambient temperature including both cold and hot temperature exposures are important contributors to CVD deaths.2 Our study specifically focused on the impact of high temperature in the context of projected warming climate in Australia, driven by the increase in mean temperature and extreme heat events, aiming to inform future-oriented heat-health adaptation and mitigation strategies. We acknowledge that our study does not capture the impact of cold-related exposure and call for future studies to provide a more comprehensive picture to address this gap.

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