Why cardiologists should be interested in air pollution
Open Access
- 1 December 2003
- Vol. 89 (12) , 1383-1388
- https://doi.org/10.1136/heart.89.12.1383
Abstract
Despite major improvements in air quality resulting from increasingly stringent legislation, there remains a strong association between daily mortality and current levels of air pollution. Growing epidemiological evidence suggests that many, perhaps the majority, of these deaths are caused by cardiovascular disease.Keywords
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