Sham vs. Wham: The Health Insider: Urban Dwellers Alert: Exhaust Fumes Cause Arterial S... - 0 views
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Do you live in a big city or an area where you are sometimes forced to inhale car and truck exhaust? If so, you should strongly consider using a face mask, because exhaust causes arteries to lose their flexibility. Researchers writing in the journal Particle and Fibre Toxicology found that exposure to engine pollution resulted in arterial stiffness in a group of healthy volunteers.
Diesel exhaust inhalation causes vascular dysfunction and impaired endogenous fibrinoly... - 0 views
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Diesel exhaust inhalation causes vascular dysfunction and impaired endogenous fibrinolysis.
Mills NL, Törnqvist H, Robinson SD, Gonzalez M, Darnley K, MacNee W, Boon NA, Donaldson K, Blomberg A, Sandstrom T, Newby DE.
Circulation. 2005 Dec 20;112(25):3930-6.
PMID: 16365212
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.588962
Persistent endothelial dysfunction in humans after diesel exhaust inhalation - Am J Res... - 0 views
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Persistent endothelial dysfunction in humans after diesel exhaust inhalation.
Törnqvist H, Mills NL, Gonzalez M, Miller MR, Robinson SD, Megson IL, Macnee W, Donaldson K, Söderberg S, Newby DE, Sandström T, Blomberg A.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007 Aug 15;176(4):395-400. Epub 2007 Apr 19.
PMID: 17446340
doi: 10.1164/rccm.200606-872OC
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Air pollution from car fumes is the likely culprit, suggest Annette Peters, PhD, and colleagues at the Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany.
In a previous study, Peters and colleagues found that a sizeable proportion of heart attacks -- about 8% -- could be attributed to being in traffic.
To follow up, the researchers interviewed 1,454 people who survived heart attacks. In the hour before their heart attack, many of the survivors had been in heavy traffic.
Analysis of the data showed that these heart-attack-vulnerable people were 3.2 times more likely to suffer a heart attack if they'd been in heavy traffic in the previous hour.