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Editorial
. 2023 Apr;30(2):680-683.
doi: 10.1007/s12350-022-03022-4. Epub 2022 Jul 20.

If you don't kill pollution it could kill you: pathophysiologic insights into pollution mediated cardiovascular risk through FDG PET imaging

Kartik Gupta  1 , Karthik Ananthasubramaniam  2
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Editorial

If you don't kill pollution it could kill you: pathophysiologic insights into pollution mediated cardiovascular risk through FDG PET imaging

Kartik Gupta et al. J Nucl Cardiol. 2023 Apr.
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Diagrammatic representation of inhalation of particulate AP and associated respiratory, cardiovascular and neurological disorders which can be potentially imaged using Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography/Positron Emission Tomography. Adapted from Chossière et al
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