Health conditions related to heat are sharply rising and may affect ethnic populations disproportionately, California statistics suggest. - NBCAsianAmerica
The research was conducted at the Weill Cornell Medicine campus in Doha, Qatar. Investigators there started studying the data to compare California with Doha, which also sees a high amount of heat-related illness, and with other places.
Older research has showcased the vulnerability to heat-related-illness among ethnic minorities in agricultural occupations. But Ostrovskiy and his colleague Ziyad Mahfoud, along with medical student Rana Abualsaud, wanted to know whether this gap was worsening or improving over time, they explain in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine.
However, they add, minorities are likely to be of lower socioeconomic status and to live in densely populated areas with no air conditioning. Dr. Marc Schenker, a distinguished professor of public health sciences and medicine at University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health he thinks the study"was very appropriately cautious in conclusions, mentioning a lot of possibilities for the observation."
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