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Today, sustainable development is the biggest challenge to humans as a race. Unambiguous climatic changes have direct impacts on human health (Costello et al. 2009; Epstein 2001), especially when infectious, respiratory, and CVD including cardiometabolic syndrome are taken into account (Altizer et al. 2013; Bouzid et al. 2014). Most pathogens require vector carriers or hosts for their lifecycle. Drastic climate and weather conditions facilitate the survival, reproduction, distribution, and transmission of these and as a result, the disease. These co‐morbid infectious diseases can certainly exaggerate the complications of cardiometabolic syndrome. Thus changing climate has a huge impact on these infectious and non‐infectious diseases especially cardiometabolic diseases (Kim 2016). Patients that are at a risk for CVD are hit severely by fluctuating climates as well as the pollutants present in the air which directly impact the blood pressure and put these patients at a great risk (Laden et al. 2006).

In many parts of the world, the extreme weather conditions that are a product of the greenhouse gas emission has also created a barrier in people being able to go out and exercise which has a direct impact on the heart health as it increases obesity (Moellering and Smith 2012). High temperature also seems to have an impact on the blood pressure reading creating stress on the heart and increasing chances of cardiometabolic and CVD (Noordam et al. 2019).