Biased air pollutants
a us study has found the link between particulate matter (pm) and fatal coronary heart disease (chd) is stronger in women than in men, and women who live in areas with greater air pollution showed a higher susceptibility to developing and dying from chd.
"To our knowledge, no other cohort study on the health effects of ambient air pollution has reported gender specific risks for chd mortality,' said lead author Lie Hong Chen, who works at the department of epidemiology and biostatistics, Loma Linda University in the us . The findings of the long-term study from 1976 to 1998 were published online in Environmental Health Perspectives on August 2, 2005.
Researchers estimated the monthly concentration of pm (pm10 and pm2.5, particulate matter with diameter less than 10 micrometre (
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