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Review
. 2003 Dec;89(12):1383-8.
doi: 10.1136/heart.89.12.1383.

Why cardiologists should be interested in air pollution

H C Routledge  1 , J G Ayres, J N Townend
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Review

Why cardiologists should be interested in air pollution

H C Routledge et al. Heart. 2003 Dec.

Abstract

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.

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Mechanisms by which particulate and gaseous air pollutants may exert adverse effects on the cardiovascular system.
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