Medical Xpress December 10, 2025
Where you live may matter more than you think when it comes to your health. A new study has found that people living in neighborhoods with a high climate vulnerability index face a significantly higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes—even after accounting for personal health and lifestyle factors.
The study, one of the largest to date, used the Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI)—a score that captures how vulnerable a neighborhood is to climate stressors such as extreme heat, storms and pollution, as well as socioeconomic stressors like poverty, housing quality, infrastructure and access to care.
The work is published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
The paper, titled “Climate Vulnerability Index and Incident Type 2 Diabetes in a Large Integrated...
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