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See all EU institutions and bodiesEurope counted 47,690 excess deaths due to heat in 2023, estimated a new study in Nature Medicine. This is the second highest heat-related mortality burden since 2015, only surpassed by 2022 (over 60,000 estimated deaths). Despite this being a high number of mostly avoidable deaths, the heat-related mortality burden would have been 80% higher in absence of present adaptation measures, especially for the elderly.
The full article by Gallo et al. (2024) is published in Nature Medicine.
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