Air Pollution Triggers More Heart Attacks Than Cocaine

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Air pollution causes more heart attacks than cocaine, and is as threatening a trigger as coffee, alcohol, and physical exertion, researchers find. They combined data from 36 individual studies in order to calculate each cause’s population-attributable fraction, or PAF—basically, the proportion of all heart attacks attributed to each trigger….

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