Traffic Exposure May Trigger Heart Attacks
Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 02:14
in Health & Medicine
Patients who suffer a heart attack are likely to have been exposed to traffic, especially in the hour before the onset of symptoms. In women, elderly males, patients who were unemployed, and those with a history of angina, the effect was larger.
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