With heavy wildfire-smoke inhalation may be heightened heartbeat-stoppage risk: Study

Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

Exposure to heavy smoke during recent California wildfires raised the risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests up to 70%, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the open access journal of the American Heart Association. Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart abruptly stops beating properly and can no longer […]

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