Meanings of heat illness in English

Purpose: To describe the epidemiology of exertional heat illness in high school athletes.

Infants and children ages 4 and younger are at an increased risk for heat illness.

Implementing effective preventive measures depends on increasing awareness of exertional heat illness and relevant preventive and therapeutic countermeasures.

Background: It is estimated that more than 9000 high school athletes are treated for exertional heat illness annually.

The authors recommend incorporating the risk of exertional heat illness in health impact assessments and deploying heat management strategies.

A new study, released last week, predicts that a warming climate will drive thousands to emergency rooms for heat illness.

Dehydration, heart disease, sunburn, alcohol use, fever and taking certain medications are situations that put you at greater risk for heat illness.

Conclusions: With adults failing to modify behavior on hot days, cities may be placing adults at increased risk of exertional heat illness.

Instead of reveling in her accomplishment, Wozniacki was worrying about Peng Shuai, who had succumbed to heat illness during their semifinal match Friday.

Conditions diagnosed as heat illness or heat stroke rose nearly four-fold for every 10-degree climb on the thermometer, and dehydration visits increased by 25 percent.

Heat illnesses are possible in areas with hot temperatures and high humidity.

Data regarding demographic characteristics, KAP, and heat illnesses were collected using a structured questionnaire.

Conclusions: Although most exertional heat illnesses occurred in football, athletes in all sports and all geographic areas are at risk.

Heat illness ranges from heat rash to cramps to exhaustion-the most common type of heat illness-to stroke, which can cause permanent damage or death.

Of the exertional heat illnesses reported during practice, almost one third (32.0%) occurred more than 2 hours into the practice session.

In 2014, four days of the tournament exceeded 41C, over 1000 attendees were treated for heat illnesses, and nine players were forced to withdraw.