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For every death there’ll be many more hospital admissions for things such as strokes and heart attacks. Vladimirs Koskins/ShutterstockMost people are acutely aware of the toll the heat can take on human life, particularly since the extreme heat of Black Saturday in 2009 and the European heatwave of 2003. So it may come as a surprise that more Australians die from the cold than the heat. A new study published in The Lancet shows 6.5{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} of deaths in this country are attributed to cold weather, compared with 0.5{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} from hot weather. Most deaths will be from cardiovascular and respiratory disease, as it’s the heart and lungs that struggle when we are outside our comfort zone. When cold weather deaths were first noticed the theory was that it was