Cardiovascular Disease Linked To Air Pollution

Air pollution has been studied for decades but recent research shows that there is something else to be scared by with it. Cariovascular disease might sometimes be caused by air pollution because the exposure with the air pollution causes problems with the artery walls by them thickening due to acceleration.

The studies that the school Keck of Medicine did in the University of Southern California has actually been released and published with the journal called PloS ONE and they did a collaboration with Switzerland and Spain as international partners.

In Los Angeles a study was conducted to those that lived within 100 meters to a highway that was in Los Angeles. They found that the artery was thickening more then the ones that did not live near the highway. Studies revealed it would thicken twice as quickly and sometimes at rapid speed compared to the ones that did not live so close.

There is a break through now for them since they can detect the relation to air pollution and the progression with atherosclerosis. The studies also reveal that what they though about air pollution was correct but they did not know that it played such a large role with Cardiovascular disease.