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The CDC notes that older adults, the very young, and people with mental illness and chronic diseases are at the greatest risk for heat-related illnesses and deaths resulting from heat stroke, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, or cerebrovascular disease. But even young and healthy people can be affected: more than one in five heat-related deaths occur in Americans aged 15 to 44.