Doctors say when temperatures soar into the triple digits, more stress is put on the heart, causing an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
It has been a brutally hot summer in Central Texas, and this week we are dealing with extreme heat. Dr. Vivek Goswami, a cardiologist with Heart Hospital, Boston and Austin Heart, joined FOX 7 Austin'sDr. Goswami, when you go outside right now, I mean, your body just feels the heat. It's oppressive. What does the extreme heat due to the body, especially the heart?Yeah. So great question.
The second mechanism has to do with evaporation, right? So when we sweat on dry days, that sweat can evaporate, and it'll pull heat from our body and decrease our body temps. The problem is, is when the ambient temps exceed our body temps, we're no longer effective at radiating that heat to decrease our body temps. And secondly, when temperatures are very humid and the weather is very humid, we no longer evaporate. That sweat.
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