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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 11, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(22):2621-2622; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl319
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Traffic and the heart

Bert Brunekreef

Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Faculties of Veterinary Medicine, Science, and Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Universiteit Utrecht, PO Box 80178, 3508 TD, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Corresponding author. Tel: +31 30 2539494/90; fax: +31 30 2539499. E-mail address: b.brunekreef@iras.uu.nl

This editorial refers to ‘Residence close to high traffic and prevalence of coronary heart disease’{dagger} by B. Hoffmann et al., on page 2696

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A small but growing body of evidence suggests that being near traffic may not be good for our hearts.

Time series studies have shown associations between various air pollution components and cardiovascular deaths and hospitalizations for the last 15 years or so.1 In these studies, the day-to-day variation in pollution levels is associated with day-to-day variations in cardiovascular death or hospitalization rates. Temporal pollution variations are largely driven by weather patterns, which by themselves may also affect cardiovascular health. How best to disentangle effects of meteorology and air pollution on the cardiovascular system has been the topic of heated debate.2 At current pollution levels in highly . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Residence close to high traffic and prevalence of coronary heart disease
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