Indian Summer Heat Puts Heart Patients At Risk: Tips To Stay Safe

Heart patients face added risk from the heatwaves and summer heat that India is subjected to.

High environmental temperatures and humidity are uncomfortable for most of us, but for those with heart disease, they can be deadly. The heart responds to a rise in temperature by a faster pumping and dilation of blood vessels of the skin. This favours heat loss.

Moderate exercise may result in up to tenfold increase in heat production with a resultant rise in heart rate. Strenuous physical effort in hot and humid weather may be particularly deleterious in heart disease.

Effects of Hot or Humid Weather on Heart Disease Patients