ReviewTemperature (Austin, Tex.)2019
Towards establishing evidence-based guidelines on maximum indoor temperatures during hot weather in temperate continental climates.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Association of Indoor Temperature Level and Mental Health Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Systematic Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of Daylong Exposure to Indoor Overheating on Thermal and Cardiovascular Strain in Older Adults: A Randomized Crossover Trial.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Trial
- Residential indoor temperatures and health: A scoping review of observational studies.The Science of the total environment · 2025Article
- Biophysical versus machine learning models for predicting rectal and skin temperatures in older adults.Journal of thermal biology · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal Facility-Level Patterns of Summer Heat Exposure, Vulnerability, and Risk in United States Prison Landscapes.GeoHealth · 2024Article
- Severity Analysis for Occupational Heat-related Injury Using the Multinomial Logit Model.Safety and health at work · 2024Article
- Dependence on relative humidity in the formation of reactive oxygen species in water droplets.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Identifying heat thresholds for South Africa towards the development of a heat-health warning system.International journal of biometeorology · 2024Article
- Experimental research in environmentally induced hyperthermic older persons: A systematic quantitative literature review mapping the available evidence.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2024Article
- Indoor overheating: A review of vulnerabilities, causes, and strategies to prevent adverse human health outcomes during extreme heat events.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2024Review
- Simulating Energy Use, Indoor Temperatures, and Utility Cost Impacts Amidst a Warming Climate in a Multi-family Housing Model.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2023Article
- Efficacy of Cooling Centers for Mitigating Physiological Strain in Older Adults during Daylong Heat Exposure: A Laboratory-Based Heat Wave Simulation.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Chronic Diseases Associated With Mortality in British Columbia, Canada During the 2021 Western North America Extreme Heat Event.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- An analysis of past and future heatwaves based on a heat-associated mortality threshold: towards a heat health warning system.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2022Article
- A Longitudinal Study on the Impact of Indoor Temperature on Heat-Related Symptoms in Older Adults Living in Non-Air-Conditioned Households.Environmental health perspectives · 2022Article
- Indoor Temperatures in the 2018 Heat Wave in Quebec, Canada: Exploratory Study Using Ecobee Smart Thermostats.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Physical environment research of the family ward for a healthy residential environment.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- A randomized cross-over trial investigating differences in 24-h personal air and skin temperatures using wearable sensors between two climatologically contrasting settings.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Estimating policy-relevant health effects of ambient heat exposures using spatially contiguous reanalysis data.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2019Article
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Abstract
Rising environmental temperatures represent a major threat to human health. The activation of heat advisories using evidence-based thresholds for high-risk outdoor ambient temperatures have been shown to be an effective strategy to save lives during hot weather. However, although the relationship between weather and human health has been widely defined by outdoor temperature, corresponding increases in indoor temperature during heat events can also be harmful to health especially in vulnerable populations. In this review, we discuss our current understanding of the relationship between outdoor temperature and human health and examine how human health can also be adversely influenced by high indoor temperatures during heat events. Our assessment of the existing literature revealed a high degree of variability in what can be considered an acceptable indoor temperature because there are differences in how different groups of people may respond physiologically and behaviorally to the same living environment. Finally, we demonstrate that both non-physiological (e.g., geographical location, urban density, building design) and physiological (e.g., sex, age, fitness, state of health) factors must be considered when defining an indoor temperature threshold for preserving human health in a warming global climate.
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