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Thread: Hypo- exceed hyper-thermia death rates (was Venus is not an example of runa)
# 13083 byhitssquad@... on June 25, 2013, 12:20 p.m.
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--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Joel 'Twisty' Nye wrote:
> Comparatively few people die of hypothermia compared to heat related deaths like heat stroke and dehydration.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6151a6.htm
"From 1999 to 2011, a total of 16,911 deaths in the United States, an average of 1,301 per year, were associated with exposure to excessive natural cold. The highest yearly total of hypothermia-related deaths (1,536) was in 2010 and the lowest (1,058) in 2006. Approximately 67% of hypothermia-related deaths were among males."
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6136a6.htm
"From 1999 to 2010, a total of 7,415 deaths in the United States, an average of 618 per year, were associated with exposure to excessive natural heat. The highest yearly total of heat-related deaths (1,050) was in 1999 and the lowest (295) in 2004. Approximately 68% of heat-related deaths were among males."
Within the time-span studied, the highest yearly total of heat-related deaths (1,050 1999) was lower than the lowest yearly total of hypothermia-related deaths (1,058 in 2006) in the United States. Your claim seems to be wrong, at least in the United States. Not only that, but a lot of "heat related deaths" occur on mild-temperature days and are a result of the popularity of automobile air bags, rather than hot weather:
http://www.ggweather.com/heat/
"Airbags vs. Heatstroke Deaths
In the three-year period of 1990-1992, before airbags became popular, there were only 11 known deaths of children from heatstroke .
In the most recent three-year period of 2009-2011, when almost all young children are now placed in back seats instead of front seats, there have been at least 118 known fatalities from heatstroke...a ten-fold increase from the rate of the early 1990s. (graphic)"
"VEHICLE HEAT STUDY
Study of temperature rise in enclosed cars on 16 dates between May 16 and Aug. 8, 2002.
Ambient temperature were between 72 and 96 degrees F."