Electric fans ease heart strain for older adults in humid heat

Dr Georgia Chaseling, who led data collection in Montreal during her time as a post-doctoral researcher, and now co-leads the "Ageing and Chronic Diseases" priority research theme in the Heat and Health Research Centre at the University of Sydney adds: "The interventions that we tested seem simple, but they are necessarily so because we wanted to figure out which solutions people living in low-resource settings without access to air-conditioning should and should not be using."

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University of Sydney