[prakruti] Air pollution increases risk of heart attack - DD

[Guest guest]

At 01:48 AM 9/15/07, you wrote:

>AVShenoy <av_shenoy

>[prakruti] Air pollution increases risk of heart attack - DD

>V Mohan <vishveshwarimohan, TPR Sarma <tprsarma,

> ...snip... Sudhir Parulkar <parulkaranant

>

>

>Saturday 15 September, 2007.

>

>

>Air pollution increases risk of heart attack

>

>

>According to researchers, air pollution could be putting patients with

>heart disease at risk by affecting blood vessels and clotting.

>The University of Edinburgh in Scotland and Umea University in Sweden

>measured that the effects of diesel exhaust on heart and blood vessel

>function in men who have previously suffered a heart attack.

>

>The research, funded by the British Heart Foundation, found that inhaling

>diesel exhaust caused changes in the heart's electrical activity,

>suggesting that air pollution reduces the amount of oxygen available to

>the heart during exercise.

>

> " This provides an explanation for why patients with heart disease are more

>likely to be admitted to hospital on days in which air pollution levels

>are increased, " Dr Nicholas Mills of the University of Edinburgh, said.

>

> " Most people tend to think of air pollution as having effects on the lungs

>but, it can also have a major impact on how our heart functions, " said Mills.

>

>The patients with coronary heart disease, diesel exhaust can reduce the

>amount of oxygen available to the heart during exercise, which may

>increase the risk of a heart attack, " said Peter Weissberg, of the British

>Heart Foundation

 

******

Kraig and Shirley Carroll ... in the woods of SE Kentucky

http://www.thehavens.com/

thehavens

606-376-3363

 

 

---

Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.

Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).

Version: 6.0.859 / Virus Database: 585 - Release 2/14/05