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“These results contribute to the growing evidence of how urban design affects the health and well-being in aging populations,” said Andrew Rundle, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University.
Manoush Zomorodi, host of NPR's "TED Radio Hour" and a new limited run podcast series "Body Electric," and Keith Diaz, of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, talk about the new podcast.
“At the population level, that does worry me,” said Antón Castellanos Usigli, a sexual health expert who is an adjunct lecturer at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
“We saw that during periods of higher temperatures, there was a corresponding increase in hospital visits related to alcohol and substance use,” said first study author Robbie Parks.
“This is the first study to really look across all of the health care workers,” said Mark Olfson, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and the paper’s lead author.
“This is some validation for the community that this isn’t just a bunch of people who are complaining a lot,” said Dr. Daniel Griffin, an infectious disease expert at Columbia University.
“You want to be cautious,” said Matthew Harms, who runs the ALS Families Project at Columbia, adding that he agrees there needs to be more advocacy and research for carriers.