Traffic Triples Heart Attack Risk

Traffic Triples Heart Attack Risk:

"Whether you drive, take the bus, or bicycle, being in heavy traffic triples your risk of heart attack within one hour.

Air pollution from car fumes is the likely culprit, suggest Annette Peters, PhD, and colleagues at the Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany.....Analysis of the data showed that these heart-attack-vulnerable people were 3.2 times more likely to suffer a heart attack if they'd been in heavy traffic in the previous hour.

'One potential factor could be the exhaust and air pollution coming from other cars,' Peters says in a news release. 'But we can't exclude the synergy between stress and air pollution that could tip the balance.'"