Mitigating Climate Impacts on Athletes: Sports Guidelines May Prevent Exertional Heat Illness

摘要

The incidence of heat-related illnesses and deaths is expected torise as heat waves become more frequent in some areas.1 Can policies that mandate risk-reducing behaviors lower the likelihood ofheat illness and save lives? Few studies have addressed this issue,but recent research in Environmental Health Perspectives foundthat when states implemented guidelines to help ward off exertional heat illness (EHI) in student athletes, rates did, in fact, falldramatically.