Harvard Health Publishing has been insisting for weeks on something that most rule out in the middle of the summer: swollen ankles at the end of the day are not always a matter of the thermometer. It may be the first visible clue that blood is not circulating as it should. Thousands of people notice how their feet increase in volume after a day of heat, fit with more difficulty and feel heavy legs. The automatic reaction is to blame high tempera…
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Harvard Health Publishing has been insisting for weeks on something that most rule out in the middle of the summer: swollen ankles at the end of the day are not always a matter of the thermometer. It may be the first visible clue that blood is not circulating as it should. Thousands of people notice how their feet increase in volume after a day of heat, fit with more difficulty and feel heavy legs. The automatic reaction is to blame high tempera…