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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Ballester, Joan author Quijal-Zamorano, Marcos author Méndez Turrubiates, Raúl Fernando author Pegenaute Pérez, Ferran author Herrmann, François R. author Robine, Jean-Marie author Basagaña Flores, Xavier author Tonne, Cathryn author Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria author Achebak, Hicham author 2023-10-06T06:03:33Z 2023-10-06T06:03:33Z 2023 Over 70,000 excess deaths occurred in Europe during the summer of 2003. The resulting societal awareness led to the design and implementation of adaptation strategies to protect at-risk populations. We aimed to quantify heat-related mortality burden during the summer of 2022, the hottest season on record in Europe. We analyzed the Eurostat mortality database, which includes 45,184,044 counts of death from 823 contiguous regions in 35 European countries, representing the whole population of over 543 million people. We estimated 61,672 (95% confidence interval (CI) = 37,643-86,807) heat-related deaths in Europe between 30 May and 4 September 2022. Italy (18,010 deaths; 95% CI = 13,793-22,225), Spain (11,324; 95% CI = 7,908-14,880) and Germany (8,173; 95% CI = 5,374-11,018) had the highest summer heat-related mortality numbers, while Italy (295 deaths per million, 95% CI = 226-364), Greece (280, 95% CI = 201-355), Spain (237, 95% CI = 166-312) and Portugal (211, 95% CI = 162-255) had the highest heat-related mortality rates. Relative to population, we estimated 56% more heat-related deaths in women than men, with higher rates in men aged 0-64 (+41%) and 65-79 (+14%) years, and in women aged 80+ years (+27%). Our results call for a reevaluation and strengthening of existing heat surveillance platforms, prevention plans and long-term adaptation strategies. J.B., M.Q.-Z., R.F.M.T. and F.P. gratefully acknowledge funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe research and innovation programs under grant nos. 865564 (European Research Council Consolidator Grant EARLY-ADAPT; https://www.early-adapt.eu/), 101069213 (European Research Council Proof-of-Concept HHS-EWS) and 101123382 (European Research Council Proof-of-Concept FORECAST-AIR). J.B., C.T. and J.M.A. acknowledge funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant no. 101057131 (Horizon Europe project CATALYSE; https://catalysehorizon.eu/). J.B. and X.B. acknowledge funding from the Ministry of Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia (no. 2021-SGR-01563). J.B. also acknowledges funding from FORMAS, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Cross-Cutting Climate Adaptation—Challenges and Measures Grant ADATES), and from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant no. RYC2018-025446-I (program Ramón y Cajal). H.A. acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant no. 101065876 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship TEMP-MOMO). ISGlobal authors acknowledge support from grant no. CEX2018-000806-S funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and support from the Generalitat de Catalunya through the CERCA Program. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. Epidemiology Health policy Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022