{"id":224599,"date":"2025-11-05T20:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/experts-warn-of-wider-health-impact-of-tropical-cyclones-in-a-warming-climate"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:09:20","slug":"experts-warn-of-wider-health-impact-of-tropical-cyclones-in-a-warming-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/experts-warn-of-wider-health-impact-of-tropical-cyclones-in-a-warming-climate","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn of wider health impact of tropical cyclones in a warming climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experts-warn-of-wider-health-impact-of-tropical-cyclones-in-a-warming-climate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beyond direct injuries, exposure to tropical cyclones is associated with higher risks of death across a range of causes including kidney, heart and lung diseases, neuropsychiatric conditions, and diabetes, finds a study published in <i>The BMJ<\/i>\u2019s climate issue.<\/p>\n<p>Risks were substantially higher in deprived communities and areas that have previously experienced fewer tropical cyclones, suggesting an urgent need to integrate more evidence on <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/tropical+cyclone+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tropical cyclone activity<\/a> into disaster response plans, say the authors.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical cyclones are one of the most devastating and costly extreme weather events, affecting an average of 20.4 million people a year with direct economic losses of US$51.5 billion over the past decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond direct injuries, exposure to tropical cyclones is associated with higher risks of death across a range of causes including kidney, heart and lung diseases, neuropsychiatric conditions, and diabetes, finds a study published in The BMJ\u2019s climate issue. Risks were substantially higher in deprived communities and areas that have previously experienced fewer tropical cyclones, suggesting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}