{"id":9050,"date":"2025-08-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9050"},"modified":"2025-08-21T01:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:53:41","slug":"whats-all-this-wildfire-smoke-doing-to-your-health-heres-what-experts-have-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/whats-all-this-wildfire-smoke-doing-to-your-health-heres-what-experts-have-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s all this wildfire smoke doing to your health? Here’s what experts have to say"},"content":{"rendered":"

People who breathe air polluted with large amounts of wildfire smoke visit hospital emergency rooms more often for respiratory symptoms, according to a Canadian emergency room physician and chair of the Global Climate and Health Alliance. <\/p>\n

Rates of heart attack and cardiac arrest also increase after a couple of days of exposure, Dr. Courtney Howard said.<\/p>\n

“So don’t just attribute that feeling of heaviness in your chest to asthma,” said Howard, who works in Yellowknife and is president of the Northwest Territories Medical Association.<\/p>\n

“If you have other risk factors for cardiovascular disease especially, go see your friendly local emergency department.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People who breathe air polluted with large amounts of wildfire smoke visit hospital emergency rooms more often for respiratory symptoms, according to a Canadian emergency room physician and chair of the Global Climate and Health Alliance. <\/p>\n

Rates of heart attack and cardiac arrest also increase after a couple of days of exposure, Dr. Courtney Howard said.<\/p>\n

“So don’t just attribute that feeling of heaviness in your chest to asthma,” said Howard, who works in Yellowknife and is president of the Northwest Territories Medical Association.<\/p>\n

“If you have other risk factors for cardiovascular disease especially, go see your friendly local emergency department.”<\/p>\n

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