Projections for temperature-related years of life lost from cardiovascular diseases in the elderly in a Chinese city with typical subtropical climate
Highlights: • First evidence on temperature-related cardiovascular diseases’ YLL in the elderly. • An important dual problem of climate change and aging was investigated. • Adaptation of the population to global warming was taken into consideration. • Heat-related YLL will increase tremendously even considering 30% adaptation. Extreme temperature is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to temperature variation. Global warming and the increasingly aging population are two major global challenges for human health; thus, an urgent need exists to project the temperature-related cardiovascular disease burden regarding both of the aforementioned factors. We aimed to the project temperature-related burden of cardiovascular diseases using years of life lost (YLL) in the elderly in a Chinese city with typical subtropical climate.