Tag: pollution

cardiovascular disease

Increased air pollution associated with a rise in deaths from cardiovascular disease

Deaths from cardiovascular disease are elevated on polluted days and for two days afterwards, accord...

Pollution may derail benefits of walking in older adults

Fan Chung (National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK) and colleagues repo...

Diesel pollution linked to structural and functional heart damage

Diesel pollution is linked with heart damage, according to research presented at the annual Cardiova...

Chinese air pollution linked to respiratory and cardiovascular deaths

In the largest epidemiological study conducted in the developing world, researchers found that as ex...