Warning over medication ‘which may increase risk of heart attacks in hot weather’.

Important article re heart medication and hot weather from Yale University:

ysph.yale.edu/news-article/...

[bantam12]

Can you tell us which meds as the article isn’t available to read without subscribing

[Hidden in reply to bantam12]

Please see original post-now with a new link.

[Buffafly in reply to bantam12]

Antiplatelets such as aspirin, beta blockers, plus statins for younger people. Link is somewhat tenuous…….

[Hidden in reply to Buffafly]

The Yale.edu should work. Please let me know if it doesn’t.

[Buffafly in reply to Hidden]

I mean the link between heart attacks and those medications 😂

[Camelia23 in reply to Hidden]

Yes, got it to work

[Jalia]

Can't be accessed unless Independent subscriber

[Hidden in reply to Jalia]

Please see original post- it now has a new link.

[Engineer46]

The title of the full paper is:

"Triggering of myocardial infarction by heat exposure is modified by medication intake."

Which makes it sound as if it is stating a fact, rather than merely a hypothesis.

The study basically indicates that people with heart disease experience more heart attacks when the weather is hot. What a surprise! As the Abstract of the paper states:

"Further research is needed to disentangle effect modification by medication use from effect modification by pre-existing CHD." i.e. People taking beta blockers and/or aspirin are likely to have heart disease and are therefore more likely to suffer heart attacks in hot weather than people not taking such medication.

More significant was the assertion that: "When taken by younger people (25-59), statins were associated with an over threefold risk of a heart attack on hot days." However, you would need to read the full paper to determine if there was any real validity to that claim and I wouldn't bother to pay $32 to read the full paper!

[frazeej]

The lack of definitive causality is an issue in many/all "preliminary" research papers, especially those with a relatively small sample size. Of course the usual "more research is needed" then follows. My usual reaction to such is "Oh, that's interesting."

[Sooz34]

I wonder how, if we get a cold winter this year how many excess deaths there will be from heart attack etc due to people not being able to afford to keep warm enough. Same for the following hot summers.