AHA Scientific Statement on Air Pollution:<\/strong> The American Heart Association has strengthened its position on air pollution. In an update to a 2004 scientific statement, the new statement, “Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease,”<\/a> finds greater evidence linking air pollution to CV disease and reaches several new conclusions, including:<\/p>\n Even brief exposure over hours or weeks to PM (particulate matter <2.5 \u00b5m in diameter) can trigger CV events. Bran Linked to Reduced Mortality Risk in Diabetic Women: <\/strong>Among 7,822 diabetic women in the Nurses’ Health Study, those in the highest fifth for whole grain and bran consumption had a 16%-31% lower risk of all-cause mortality, compared with those in the lowest fifth. The benefits of bran remained significant after adjustment for lifestyle and dietary risk factors. In their paper in Circulation<\/em><\/a>, Lu Qi and colleagues write that their “findings suggest that low whole-grain intake may be considered an important modifiable risk factor for decreasing mortality and cardiovascular risk in diabetic patients.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AHA Scientific Statement on Air Pollution: The American Heart Association has strengthened its position on air pollution. In an update to a 2004 scientific statement, the new statement, “Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease,” finds greater evidence linking air pollution to CV disease and reaches several new conclusions, including: Even brief exposure over hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Long-term exposure increases this risk and can reduce life expectancy “by several months to a few years.”
\n Reducing PM levels can cut CV mortality in as soon as a few years.
\n New evidence strengthens the “biological plausibility to these findings.”
\n PM exposure “is deemed a modifiable factor that contributes to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.”<\/p>\n