AIR POLLUTION CAUSES HEART DISEASE SAY US SCIENTISTS
July 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIE A STUDY from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has found that air pollution can cause clogged arteries increasing the risk of heart attacks or strokes. The scientists combined exhaust pollutants and low-density lipoprotein - LDL or "bad" fatty acids - (that carry cholesterol to arteries) and cultured them in a laboratory with cells from the inner lining of human blood vessels. "We saw that the diesel particles and oxidized fats worked in tandem to activate the genes that promote cellular inflammation," clogging arteries said Dr ...
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