Climate change increases the risk of pregnancy complications, especially in developing countries.
Global warming heats increase the risk of dangerous complications during pregnancy worldwide. This is reported in the report of the non -profit organization Climate Central based in New Jersey, which was published on Wednesday. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
Exposure to extreme heat during pregnancy has already been associated with many problems, including a higher risk of premature birth, giving birth to a dead child, congenital defects or pregnancy diabetes. The new US organization report has focused on the impact of excessive heat on pregnant since 2020 and to what extent it was affected by climate change.
“Climate change over the past five years has at least doubled the annual average number of risk days for pregnant women,” reports, according to data in 222 out of 247 countries and territories surveyed. The biggest increase was recorded in developing countries, for example, Caribbean, Central and South America, the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia and in Sub -Saharan Africa. , where there is limited access to healthcare. Went
Research has been focused solely on the increase in potentially dangerous hot days and did not investigate the extent of the influence of heat on pregnant ones. Ana Bonell’s health and extreme heat health researcher, who was not part of the research, “provides clear evidence of the increasing risk associated with exposure to extreme heat”. According to her, the results could also be applied to the elderly, for whom high temperatures also pose an increased risk.
Researchers in larger quantities document how the heat can endanger human health, but the detailed physiological mechanisms of this impact are still not known to scientists, Bonell said.
According to an extensive study of 2024, published in Nature Medicine, heat waves increase the likelihood of complications during pregnancy by about a quarter.
French epidemiologist Lucie Adelaide, in a statement associated with the new administration, recommended that existing information about the health risks of heat include warnings for pregnant women. At present, such warnings are rarely mentioned.
