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People with heart disease highly susceptible to air pollution, Intermountain Health study says
Utahns with heart disease are especially vulnerable to the impacts of air pollution, a new study has found. Heart researchers at Intermountain Health found that people with heart disease, especially those with heart failure, had higher inflammation biomarkers in their blood during short-term levels of air pollution from winter inversions and wildfire smoke. “These biomarkers rose in response to air pollution in people who already had heart disease, but not in patients who were heart-disease-free,” said Benjamin Horne, principal investigator of the study and professor of research at ...
