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title: "Climate change worsens health for people with chronic illness"
id: "stat-news-1-opinion-climate-change-is-making-people-with-chronic-illness-even-sicker"
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source_url: "https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/12/climate-change-chronic-disease-heat-smoke-arthritis-lupus-pots/?utm_campaign=rss"
published_at: "2026-08-12T08:30:00.000Z"
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# Climate change worsens health for people with chronic illness
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- **Published At:** 2026-08-12T08:30:00.000Z
- **Evidence Rating:** Verified Feed
## Executive GIST (TL;DR)
- Climate change is already affecting health and is worsening symptoms for people with **chronic illness**, through multiple pathways including heat, wildfire smoke, floods, and changing pathogen patterns. - **Wildfire smoke** and elevated **particulate matter** have been linked in research to worsening lupus symptoms, new cases of rheumatoid arthritis, RA-associated interstitial lung disease, and associations with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, diabetes, and asthma. - Increased floods and extreme precipitation promote mold growth and exposure to contaminants; mold can worsen conditions like long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis, and flood remediation can expose people to lead paint and asbestos, which have known long-term health effects. - Heat waves increase deaths and worsen outcomes for people with heart disease, diabetes, thyroid disease, and those on certain medications; research also suggests high temperatures can impair the immune system and disrupt epithelial barriers in lungs, skin, and gut. - Warming expands the range of ticks and mosquitoes, increasing risks for West Nile virus, Lyme disease, dengue, chikungunya, alpha-gal syndrome, and other vector-borne illnesses; delayed detection can lead to chronic symptoms. - Climate-driven changes in temperature and humidity can increase foodborne pathogen survival and replication (examples cited include cyclospora and salmonella), raising risk for infections that can trigger chronic gastrointestinal and autoimmune conditions. - Personal clinical experiences—author’s worsening arthritis after wildfire smoke exposure and past foodborne illnesses linked temporally to development of psoriatic arthritis—illustrate patient-level impacts, though causal links are not definitively established in the piece. - Even with immediate emission reductions, existing climatic changes mean ongoing health challenges; policy recommendations include strengthening public health and meteorological agencies, expanding access to housing and universal health care, and investing in resilient infrastructure to protect vulnerable populations. - The article emphasizes resiliency and systems-level investment rather than single “magic bullet” solutions and calls for more support for agencies that track pathogens and weather patterns to anticipate and mitigate health harms.
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Test your knowledge with our new weekday mini crossword [ Start solving ](https://www.statnews.com/stat-mini-crossword/) Opinion[First Opinion](https://www.statnews.com/category/first-opinion/) # Climate change is making people with chronic illness even sicker ## Heat, wildfire smoke, changing rainfall patterns — all can exacerbate rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and more * [Manage alerts for this article](https://www.statnews.com/my-account/edit/#emails) * Email this article * [Share this article](https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/12/climate-change-chronic-disease-heat-smoke-arthritis-lupus-pots/?utm_campaign=rss) ![](https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2285746656-645x645.jpg) Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada shrouds the Chicago skyline on July 16.Octavio Jones / AFP via Getty Images By Lorraine Boissoneault Aug. 12, 2026 Boissoneault is the author of the award-winning book “Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene.” The sky was a smoky grayish-orange and trees a few hundred yards away had turned to ghostly outlines. This July marked the third summer since I’ve lived in Chicago that the city was covered in a suffocating blanket of smoke from Canadian wildfires, and the air quality was breaking records: [as high as 753](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-air-quality-bad-canada-wildfires-2026/) on the air quality index one afternoon, earning an “extremely hazardous” warning. Even with all our windows closed and two air purifiers running in different rooms, I was still getting headaches, a sore throat, and burning eyes. And my arthritis pain was worsening. I’ve lived with chronic illnesses for most of my adult life and have racked up six of them at this point (endometriosis, psoriatic arthritis, Celiac disease, Graves and Hashimoto’s diseases, and interstitial cystitis). I know that my joints hurt more in cool, wet weather, that I’m prone to overheating when the temperature spikes above the 90s. 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