Carbon to Blame for Pollution Heart Damage -Study
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Air pollution clearly causes immediate damage to the heart, including heart attacks, but its short-term effects on asthma and other respiratory symptoms are harder to document, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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BERLIN, May 21 (IPS) - New scientific evidence confirms that human action,  such as carbon emissions causing global  warming, and  industrial-scale search for food, is decimating biodiversity -  and, in some  cases, is driving threatened species to evolve and  adapt at unexpected speed to new living  conditions.
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NEW YORK  - Exposure to carbon monoxide gas decreases the heart's ability to contract in a way that is distinct from the effects of oxygen deprivation, and this persists even after all of the carbon monoxide is removed from the system, according to experiments conducted in rats.
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Study illustrates extent to which overfishing, air pollution and commercial shipping impact oceans.
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In the first long-term study of the effects of air pollution on children, researchers reported Wednesday that children and teenagers in Southern California communities
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NEW YORK  - Research suggests that even low   blood levels of lead may raise the risk of adverse heart and   circulatory outcomes.
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Global warming may be melting glaciers and forcing polar bears onto land, but doctors warn it could also affect your heart. "If it really is a few degrees warmer in the next 50 years, we could definitely have more cardiovascular disease," said Dr. Karin Schenck-Gustafsson, of the department of cardiology at Sweden's Karolinska Institute.
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Children in smoggy areas have retarded lung development which puts them at risk of diseases, say researchers.
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This week&#39;s issue of Nature features the first study to demonstrate a link between greenhouse gas emissions and an extreme weather event - in this case, the unusually high temperatures in Europe during the summer of 2003 that led to 14,000 deaths more
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Cincinnati didn&#39;t fare well in a new study that looks at the effect of ground-level ozone on the death rate. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that
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Cold snaps and air pollution can  trigger heart deaths, and breathing dirty air day in and day  out may help heart disease develop in the first place,  researchers said on Sunday.
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On smoggy days, deaths from heart and respiratory ailments and other diseases rise, causing several thousand more people throughout the United States to die each year, according to a study published Tuesday that links air pollution and mortality in 95
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People with more bacteria in their  mouths also have more evidence of heart disease, researchers  said on Monday in a study strengthening the evidence for a link  between gum disease and heart disease.
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Increases in air pollution caused by cars, power plants and industry can be directly linked to higher death rates in U.S. cities, a study said on Tuesday.
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PEOPLE under 40 are five times more likely to have a heart attack if they smoke, according to a study published today. The reportâs authors said the findings, based on figures compiled on behalf of the World
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Work really can kill you, according to a study on Wednesday providing the strongest evidence yet of how on-the-job stress raises the risk of heart disease by disrupting the body's internal systems.
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BARCELONA, Spain -- Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide but not nearly enough is being done to educate people about how they can lessen their vulnerability, experts said Tuesday.