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Air Pollution Increases Blood 'stickiness'

Scientists have known for years that air pollution causes an increase in the death rate, usually from heart attacks, but they have never understood why. A recent study on civil servants from whitehall has found that on days when the air pollution is bad, blood samples collected from civil servants contained an increased amount of a substance called fibrinogen which thy body uses to form blood clots

26th Nov 2000

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