Extreme Temperature not good for Retirees

An article below suggests strongly for elderly or retirees to avoid settling down in areas that have annual occurrence of extreme temperature especially the low temperature.

In the Philippines, there are only 2 seasons: the dry and rainy season. Ideal place to go for retirees especially with heart diseases are exclusive villages or subdivision with wide open space, lots of trees, grass and with lakes or ponds. Ayala Land Inc. for example has a project near a beach with trees and lakes and is a haven for bird watchers as different species of birds may be found almost everywhere even at your own backyard. In fact the latest village in that project has 85% of the area committed to open space.

Title: Relationships between the seasonality of temperature and ischaemic heart disease mortality: implications for climate based health forecasting.

Personal Authors: McGregor, G. R., Watkin, H. A., Cox, M.Author Affiliation: School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

Editors: No editorsDocument Title: Climate ResearchAbstract:

The relationship between the seasonality of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality and temperature is explored for the purpose of evaluating the climate-based predictability of the magnitude and timing of the annual IHD mortality peak for 5 English counties. Seasonality is described by the amplitude (magnitude) and phase (timing) of the first harmonic of the annual cycle of IHD mortality and mean and minimum temperature.

Study results reveal a positive association between the amplitude of the annual IHD mortality cycle and temperature seasonality such that years with an exaggerated mortality peak are associated with years characterised by strong temperature seasonality. Overall, the timing of the annual mortality peak is positively associated with the timing of the lowest temperatures. Such findings provide some optimism for exploring the development of experimental climate-based health-forecasting models. This is because the simple climate-seasonality diagnostics presented here provide a fundamental source of predictability of the magnitude and timing of the annual IHD mortality peak.

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