Forecasting feels-like temperatures as a strategy to reduce heat illnesses during sport events

Milan Klöwer^{1

2}, Pascal Edouard^{3

4}, Andreas M Niess⁵, Sebastien Racinais⁶, Yannis P Pitsiladis⁷, Florian Pappenberger⁸, Karsten Hollander⁹

Affiliations

¹ Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
³ Inter-university Laboratory of Human Movement Biology (EA 7424), Université Jean Monnet, Lyon 1, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, Saint-Etienne, France.
⁴ Department of Clinical and Exercise Physiology, Sports Medicine Unit, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Faculty of Medicine, Saint-Etienne, France.
⁵ Department of Sports Medicine, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
⁶ Research and Scientific Support, ASPETAR - Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
⁷ School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Brighton, Eastbourne, UK.
⁸ European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK.
⁹ IInstitute of Interdisciplinary Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany karsten.hollander@medicalschool-hamburg.de.

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Milan Klöwer et al. Br J Sports Med. 2023 May.

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. 2023 May;57(10):559-561.

doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2022-106413. Epub 2023 Mar 7.

Milan Klöwer^{1

2}, Pascal Edouard^{3

4}, Andreas M Niess⁵, Sebastien Racinais⁶, Yannis P Pitsiladis⁷, Florian Pappenberger⁸, Karsten Hollander⁹

¹ Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
³ Inter-university Laboratory of Human Movement Biology (EA 7424), Université Jean Monnet, Lyon 1, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, Saint-Etienne, France.
⁴ Department of Clinical and Exercise Physiology, Sports Medicine Unit, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Faculty of Medicine, Saint-Etienne, France.
⁵ Department of Sports Medicine, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
⁶ Research and Scientific Support, ASPETAR - Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
⁷ School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Brighton, Eastbourne, UK.
⁸ European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK.
⁹ IInstitute of Interdisciplinary Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany karsten.hollander@medicalschool-hamburg.de.

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Keywords: Preventive Medicine; Sports medicine; Stress, Physiological.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.