10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries
Green Car Congress
MAY 25, 2016
Long-term exposure to particulate air pollution has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, but the biological process has not been understood. Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 Agatston units per year (95% CI 1.4–6.8) Agatston units per year (0.9–8.7)—about
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