Air Pollution Damages More Than Lungs: Heart And Blood Vessels Suffer Too
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 20:21
in Health & Medicine
Air pollution has both short- and long-term toxic effects that injure the heart and blood vessels, increase rates of hospitalization for cardiac illness and can even cause death.
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