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To the Editor: From the report by Semenza et al.¹ and the accompanying editorial by Kellermann and Todd² on the risks associated with heat waves (July 11 issue), it seems that the vocabulary of risk factors has shifted over the past 15 years. When a similar report was published after the July 1980 heat wave in St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, the researchers identified nonwhite race and poverty as significant risk factors for heat-related death.³ In 1996, Semenza et al. identify social isolation as a risk factor. Although the labels have changed, the risk groups seem largely the same. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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