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2. Living with COPD: The Best and Worst Cities - Healthline

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   “The best climate to live in with COPD would be an area that avoids temperature extremes. Try to find an area that is cool, dry, with low humidity, and that has good medical resources and care ...

3. Dry Air: How Dry Air Can Affect Your Health, Plus Prevention Tips

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   Dry air has the ability to worsen a wide range of health issues, from respiratory conditions and skin problems to nosebleeds, dry eyes, sore throats, and more. To maintain a healthy environment ...

4. Effects of climate change on human health - Wikipedia

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   Changes in climate can cause decreasing yields for some crops and regions, resulting in higher food prices, food insecurity, and undernutrition. Climate change can also reduce water security. These factors together can lead to increasing poverty, human migration, violent conflict, and mental health issues. [7][8][3]

5. COPD and Humidity: Effects and Dangers - Healthline

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   Too much indoor humidity can lead to an increase in common indoor air pollutants, such as dust mites, bacteria, and viruses. These irritants can make COPD symptoms much worse. High levels of ...

6. Drought - Wikipedia

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   A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions. [1]: 1157 A drought can last for days, months or years. Drought often has large impacts on the ecosystems and agriculture of affected regions, and causes harm to the local economy. [2][3] Annual dry seasons in the tropics significantly increase the chances of a drought developing, with ...

7. COPD and Humidity: Tips to Help you Prepare - WebMD

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   Tips for using your humidifier include: Use distilled water. Change the water as often as every day. Unplug and clean the tank every 3 days with hydrogen peroxide or another disinfectant if the ...

8. Climate change and infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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   Global climate change has increased the occurrence of some infectious diseases. [ 1 ] Infectious diseases whose transmission is impacted by climate change include, for example, vector-borne diseases like dengue fever, malaria, tick-borne diseases, leishmaniasis, zika fever, chikungunya and Ebola. One mechanism contributing to increased disease ...

9. The Weather: Wreaking Havoc on Health - WebMD

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   For people with asthma, a variety of triggers can result in inflamed airways, provoking an asthma attack. It turns out weather is one of them. With exercise-induced asthma, cold weather can signal ...