The risk of death spikes when people are exposed to both elevated levels of fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke and temperatures above 26 C, new UBC research has found.
The risk of death spikes when people are exposed to both elevated levels of fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke and temperatures above 26 C, new UBC research has found.
With wildfires blazing and temperature records being broken, many Canadians could be experiencing smoky air alongside soaring heat this summer—and according to new UBC research, the combined effects could be uniquely hazardous to human health.
Dr. Sarah Henderson, professor in the UBC School of Population and Public Health and scientific director of Environmental Health Services with the BC Centre for Disease Control, is the senior author on a new study that examined how such double exposures impact health and mortality.
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