- ►navy.mil [PDF] A Bouchama, JP Knochel - New England journal of medicine, 2002 - content.nejm.org Research performed during the past decade has shown that heat stroke results
from thermoregulatory failure coupled with an exaggerated acute-phase response
and possibly with altered expression of heat-shock proteins. 9 , 10 , 11 , ... Cited by 402 - Related articles - All 18 versions
- ►jhu.edu [PDF] E Klinenberg, 2002 - books.google.com $27.50 i Thursday. July 13,1995, Chicagoans awoke to a ; day in which the
temperature would reach 106 degrees. Hie heat index, which measures how the
temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time ... Cited by 364 - Related articles - All 6 versions
- ►nih.gov [PDF] MA McGeehin, M Mirabelli - Environmental Health Perspectives, 2001 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov The relationship between human health and stressful weather is a complex
medical, social, and environmental issue (Figure 1). Future- climate scenarios
suggest that higher global mean temperatures could result in marked changes ... Cited by 179 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 20 versions
AL Huerta-Alardín, J Varon, PE Marik - Crit Care, 2005 - biomedcentral.com Rhabdomyolysis ranges from an asymptomatic illness with elevation in the
creatine kinase level to a life-threatening condition associated with extreme
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- ►bmj.com RS Kovats, S Hajat, P Wilkinson - British Medical Journal, 2004 - oem.bmj.com Aims and Methods: The effects of hot weather and heat waves on emergency
hospital admissions were investigated in Greater London, UK, for a range of
causes and age groups. Time series analyses were conducted of daily ... Cited by 63 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
- ►physiology.org A Bouchama, G Roberts, F Al Mohanna, R El- … - Journal of Applied Physiology, 2005 - Am Physiological Soc The mortality and neurological morbidity in heatstroke have been attributed to
the host's inflammatory and hemostatic responses to heat stress, suggesting that
immunomodulation may improve outcome. We postulated that an experimental ... Cited by 53 - Related articles - All 6 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org H Grogan, PM Hopkins - British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2002 - British Jrnl Anaesthesia Heat-related illnesses, such as heat stroke, are relatively uncommon in
temperate climates. Much of the clinical experience comes from Saudi Arabia
(where there is an annual pilgrimage to Mecca) and the military. Case ... Cited by 48 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►nih.gov [PDF] KE Smoyer-Tomic, DG Rainham - Environmental health perspectives, 2001 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov As the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago demonstrated, episodes of hot and humid
weather can lead to hundreds of excess deaths over several days. An increasing
num- ber of cities subject to hazardous summer weather across the United ... Cited by 44 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 19 versions
JF Dhainaut, YE Claessens, C Ginsburg, B … - Critical Care, 2003 - biomedcentral.com It is clear from the atmospheric research reports that there has been an
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A Bouchama - Intensive Care Medicine, 2004 - Springer Heat is well-known as a killer in diverse parts of the world, including Europe.
It has struck France (1976), Greece (1987), Belgium (1994) and Wales and England
(1995), causing the death of hundreds of people [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. The summer ... Cited by 38 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
