Power outages linked to more emergency hospital visits for older adults

Adults over age 65 experience greater numbers of emergency hospitalizations for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases during and after power outages, reports a new study by Heather McBrien of Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, U.S., and colleagues, published in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine.

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