Citation

裕行, 康史. J. Jpn. Counc. Traffic Sci. 2016; 15(2): 3-8.

Vernacular Title

熱中症全国調査からみた高齢社会の影

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, The Japanese Council of Traffic Science)

DOI

10.24597/jcts.15.2_3

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

According to the data of diagnosis procedure combination （DPC）, over 400,000 patients of heat stroke have been treated every year in Japan. And the number of the elderly patients suffering from heat stroke has been increasing in Japan. The characters of elderly heat stroke patients are the high rate occurred in house, high rate of heat stroke at rest, and high rate of severe type. Factors of high age, occurrence in house, and the heat stroke at rest were related to high mortality by the analysis of the Heat stroke Surveillance Committee of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine （JAAM）. The causes of the heat stroke in effort are a working or sports under the sunshine, so the evaluation and treatments for the heat stroke in effort are rather easy. However, the heat stroke at rest or in house are complicated and influenced by undernutrition, dehydration, past history and/or infectious disease. Especially, the factors such as elderly female, living alone, history of psychiatric disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and dementia, are known as the causes of deterioration. The Japanese Ministry of Environment has explored the information and prediction of heat stroke for every prefecture on their web site （http://www.wbgt.env.go.jp）. And some studies reported that we can predict the number of heat stroke patient by the weather data. We expect that these information and studies are contributed to the prevention, the prediction and the treatment for the heat stroke in Japan.

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