{"id":29305,"date":"2025-10-16T21:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29305"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:59:51","slug":"the-guardian-americans-are-dying-from-extreme-heat-autopsy-reports-dont-show-the-full-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2025\/10\/the-guardian-americans-are-dying-from-extreme-heat-autopsy-reports-dont-show-the-full-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: “Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don\u2019t show the full story.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Heat injury and even death is something that we get reminded about at the beginning of every summer in the Southeast, and for good reason. Heat-related illnesses can affect anyone, but people who work outdoors, play outside on golf courses, football fields, and lakes, or are heat-sensitive folk like older people or young children, are more likely to experience heat injuries or deaths. Heat is the weather phenomenon that is most likely to cause death. But as this article<\/a> from The Guardian<\/em> points out, there are good reasons to believe that heat causes many more deaths than the mortality statistics might list because heat often interacts with other factors to make death much more likely. Read the story and you will see how heat, combined with other conditions like obesity or taking certain medications , can make illness and death more likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heat injury and even death is something that we get reminded about at the beginning of every summer in the Southeast, and for good reason. Heat-related illnesses can affect anyone, but people who work outdoors, play outside on golf courses, football fields, and lakes, or are heat-sensitive folk like older people or young children, are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29306,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305\/revisions\/29306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}