The decline in seasonality of coronary mortality in the US since 1970 may be linked to increasing access to microclimatic control (air-conditioning) in countering the environmental effects of cold.
It looks like it’s relatively easy to control the amount you’re temperature-shocked, and they talk some about cold adaptation but I didn’t see it quantitatively linked to the other parts of the paper.
In general, cold is more dangerous than heat, and while hot climates have historically had worse diseases and bugs than cold climates, it’s not obvious to me that’s still the case. There probably is something to retiring to Florida.
From paper 1:
It looks like it’s relatively easy to control the amount you’re temperature-shocked, and they talk some about cold adaptation but I didn’t see it quantitatively linked to the other parts of the paper.
In general, cold is more dangerous than heat, and while hot climates have historically had worse diseases and bugs than cold climates, it’s not obvious to me that’s still the case. There probably is something to retiring to Florida.