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Comment
. 2019 Jul 21;40(28):2377-2378.
doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz216.

Contribution of airborne desert dust to air quality and cardiopulmonary disease

Thomas Münzel  1   2 , Jos Lelieveld  3 , Sanjay Rajagopalan  4 , Andreas Daiber  1   2
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Contribution of airborne desert dust to air quality and cardiopulmonary disease

Thomas Münzel et al. Eur Heart J. .
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Saharan dust sweeping over the Iberian Peninsula in February 2017. From NASA Earth Observatory (https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov).
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