Wednesday, September 09, 2009

How Air Pollution Can Damage the Heart

from Time Magazine

Sitting in traffic can certainly be infuriating enough to raise your blood pressure. But new research shows that traffic can raise your blood pressure and put your heart at risk in a more direct way — by exposing you to the pollution in exhaust fumes...

The new findings, published in the journal Hypertension, offers a potentially new understanding of how pollutants can affect the heart.

More at http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1921080,00.html