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Living with extreme heat might make you age faster

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81% Informative

Longer-term exposure to heat was associated with an increase in a person’s biological age by up to 2.48 years .

The impact on the body is comparable to the effects of smoking, according to the study authors.

Extreme heat is already the deadliest type of weather disaster in the US .

VR Score

83

Informative language

84

Neutral language

28

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

56

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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