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Published online 20 September 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070917-10

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Studies show diesel smog increases chances of deadly blood clots.

Study after study has shown a connection between smoggy days and an increase in deaths.Now two experiments, one on mice and the other in men, clarify why.

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