Share of patients with heat exhaustion increased 53 percent when comparing June 2016 to June 2021

 

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/974174

 

 News Release 12-Dec-2022
More males than females diagnosed with heat-related illnesses, according to new FAIR Health study
Reports and Proceedings
FAIR Health

 

Among privately insured individuals receiving medical services, the percentage of patients diagnosed with heat exhaustion increased 52.5 percent when comparing June 2016 to June 2021. This was part of a general trend in which, from May to September, the percentage of patients who were diagnosed with heat stress, heat exhaustion or heatstroke was higher in each month in 2021 than in the corresponding month of 2016. These and other findings are reported in a FAIR Health brief released today, Heat-Related Illness: A Window into Recent Trends.

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 More males than females were diagnosed with the three heat-related illnesses studied. Though the distribution was close for heat stress (males 52 percent, females 48 percent), there was greater gender disparity for heat exhaustion and heatstroke. For each of these diagnoses, males constituted 64 percent and females constituted 36 percent.

[Maybe because men are more likely to work outside.]

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