Couverture de Season 2 Ep 2 - There's Nothing Chill About These Pills: Discussing Polypharmacy and Rising Heat Risk with the Pharma Heat Team

Season 2 Ep 2 - There's Nothing Chill About These Pills: Discussing Polypharmacy and Rising Heat Risk with the Pharma Heat Team

Season 2 Ep 2 - There's Nothing Chill About These Pills: Discussing Polypharmacy and Rising Heat Risk with the Pharma Heat Team

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As extreme heat becomes more frequent and severe, certain medications increase vulnerability during these times. Older populations, in particular, continue to face this interference with their thermoregulation, with their layered vulnerability in a warming climate. Using county-level data across California, the Pharma Heat team created a more granular assessment of pharmaceutical risks using demographic and social factors that are not often analyzed together in existing literature. The Hot Takes podcast sits down with UCLA's Heat Lab's Pharmaceutical Heat Team to discuss their research on why older adults face compounded risks shaped by climate change intersecting pharmaceutical use and extreme heat.

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