Why cardiologists should be interested in air pollution.
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.
Routledge
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Division of Medical Sciences (Cardiology), University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
Ayres
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Townend
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000209:etiology