Why cardiologists should be interested in air pollution.

Helen Routledge; Jonathan Ayres; Jonathan Townend

doi:10.1136/heart.89.12.1383

Why cardiologists should be interested in air pollution.

Helen Routledge
, Jonathan Ayres
, Jonathan Townend

Birmingham Medical School

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Despite major improvements in air quality resulting from increasingly stringent legislation, there remains a strong association between daily mortality and current levels of air pollution. Growing epidemiological evidence suggests that many, perhaps the majority, of these deaths are caused by cardiovascular disease.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1383-8
Number of pages	6
Journal	Heart
Volume	89
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/heart.89.12.1383
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2003

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