Rising cause-specific mortality risk and burden of compound heatwaves amid climate change
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02137-5 The authors analyse data from 272 Chinese cities, projecting that compound heatwaves will cause higher burdens for all major cardiopulmonary diseases than daytime or nighttime heatwaves, especially under scenarios with higher emissions and ageing and in areas with high summer temperature variability.