Inhaling A Heart Attack: How Air Pollution Can Cause Heart Disease

We are used to thinking of heart disease as a product of genetic factors or lifestyle choices, such as what we eat and how much we exercise. There is another road to heart disease: breathing. Accumulating evidence indicates that an increase in particulate air pollution is associated with an increase in heart attacks and deaths.

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Filed under: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture on March 31st, 2009