Daily Grist:heart trouble,women,and pollution

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At 12:57 PM 2/2/07, you wrote:

>Heart Trouble

>High levels of pollution lead to increased heart disease in women, study finds

>

>News flash: pollution is bad. And women living in highly polluted areas

>are 76 percent more likely to die of a heart attack or stroke, according

>to a rigorous study published in the New England Journal of Medicine

>yesterday. " The magnitude of the findings are substantially higher than

>what's been seen in prior research on long-term effects of air pollution, "

>says report director Joel Kaufman. Researchers monitored the health of

>65,893 post-menopausal women for up to nine years, as well as the soot

>levels near their homes in 36 cities. (Be aware, ladies in L.A., Atlanta,

>and NYC; stay where you are, honeys in Honolulu and Tucson.) " [A]ir

>pollution isn't just an environmentalist's issue, or a matter of decreased

>visibility, " says Kaufman. " It's impacting our health right now. "

>Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. The study

>was financed in part by the U.S. EPA, which sets the (currently rather

>lenient) standard for allowable particulate pollution. Hint, hint.

>

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>straight to the source: ABC News, 01 Feb 2007

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>straight to the source: Houston Chronicle, Eric Berger, 01 Feb 2007

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>straight to the source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tom Paulson, 01 Feb 2007

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>straight to the source: The Seattle Times, Warren King, 01 Feb 2007

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>straight to the source: The Press-Enterprise, David Danelski, 31 Jan 2007

 

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