Who’s most at risk during exercise in the heat?

Exercise in the heat is harder, but does it increase our risk for medical events? And are some people more at risk than others? Sewry and team studied over 100,000 riders in the Cape Town Cycle Tour to see what were the risk factors for visits to the medical tent. Created by Stephen Cheung, Ph.D., Director of the Environmental Ergonomics Lab and Professor at Brock University (). Paper discussed: Sewry N, M Schwellnus, J Killops, S Swanevelder, DC Janse van Rensburg, E Jordaan. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 53(3):517-523, 2021. Graphic created using . Photo by MissMushroom and Harrison Moore on Unsplash.