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Does hot weather affect people with congestive heart failure?
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Challenges ability: to stay alive because ↑es demands from brain to ↑ both heart output & blood flow to skin to shed heat & moisture (sweat) in order to maintain body temperature. In congestive heart failure (lung &/or body water congested, not heart), as in all diseases, ability of person/body to adapt to changing conditions ↓es; people are more fragile; have more difficulty staying either comfortable or even alive.
Answered 6/24/2016
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