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Heart Disease Risk Factors
Findings from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences advance knowledge in heart disease risk factors
December 28th, 2008
Research findings, 'Prospective analysis of traffic exposure as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study,' are discussed in a new report. According to recent research from the United States, "For people living close to busy roads, traffic is a major source of air pollution. Few prospective data have been published on the effects of long-term exposure to traffic on the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD)." "In this article, we examined the association between long-term traffic exposure and incidence of fatal and nonfatal CHD in a population-based prospective cohort study. We studied 13,309 middle-age...
Source: Heart Disease Weekly (2008-12-28)
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