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Air pollution linked to life-threatening hardening of the arteries

2013-04-28 00:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: Long-term exposure to air pollution may be linked to heart attacks and strokes by speeding up atherosclerosis, or "hardening of the arteries", according to a University of Michigan public health researcher and colleagues from across the US. Sara Adar, the John Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the U-M School of Public Health, and Joel Kaufman, professor of environmental and occupational health sciences and medicine at the University of Washington, led the study that found that higher...

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