Heatstroke From Running

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To the Editor.— The article by Hanson and Zimmerman (242:154, 1979) points to a new aspect of an old problem now appearing on the clinical scene, heatstroke. The present problem is with the young and healthy who collapse on hot and humid days while fun running. As we have shown1such incidents as heatstroke are occurring in fun runners even when environmental conditions would not ordinarily have been suspected to predispose to heat injury. Experience with Sydney'sThe SunCity-to-Surf Run, now in its tenth year, has resulted in a number of recommendations to prevent and treat victims of heat injury. This run now attracts 21,000 to 22,000 entrants annually, and the accumulated experience since the first race in 1971, with 2,005 entrants, to the present is with approximately 93,563 runners.2 Since the inaugural race, when 29 runners collapsed, the incidence of heat casualties has declined mainly from rescheduling

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