@article{ref1,
title="Heat related illnesses. Review of an ongoing challenge",
journal="Saudi medical journal",
year="2019",
author="Khan, Anas A.",
volume="40",
number="12",
pages="1195-1201",
abstract="Climate change is the most challenging natural calamity of chronic nature that presents intense episodes of heat waves, and events. Effects of heat waves and increasing average temperature on heat-related illnesses (HRIs) demand a review of existing preventive and treatment strategies to direct future research. Heat-related illnesses are presented as minor to severe life-threatening conditions. Despite the understanding of the pathophysiology of HRI, pharmacological interventions are limited. Prevention is the best strategy against HRI. There is a dearth of epidemiological studies that reviewed the effect of pharmacological interventions on mortality, and there remains a need to identify critical key components other than inflammatory modulators, which can be targeted to decrease HRI.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0379-5284",
doi="10.15537/smj.2019.12.24727",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.12.24727"
}