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Friday 7 February 2014

Blood Pressure Rises As A Result Of Long-Term Air Pollution From Road Traffic

Blood Pressure Rises As A Result Of Long-Term Air Pollution From Road Traffic.
Long-term disclosing to the quality pollution particles caused by trade has been linked to an increase in blood pressure, US researchers say. In the unfledged report, researchers analyzed data from 939 participants in the Normative Aging Study, who were assessed every four years between 1995 and 2006.

A computer nonesuch was used to estimate each participant's risk to traffic air pollution particles during the entire study period and for the year preceding each four-year assessment. Increased conversancy to traffic pollution particles was associated with higher blood pressure, especially when the outlook occurred in the year preceding a four-year assessment (3,02 mm Hg improve in systolic blood pressure, 1,96 mm Hg increase in diastolic pressure, and 2,30 mm Hg broaden in mean arterial pressure), the study authors reported in a communication release from the American Heart Association.

This link between long-term exposure to traffic air dirtying particles and higher blood pressure readings may help explain the association between traffic fouling and heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths reported in previous studies, study author Joel Schwartz, of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues eminent in the news release. The findings were to be presented Thursday at the American Heart Association's Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention annual discussion in San Francisco.