Air pollution and cardiovascular disease: a window of opportunity

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The recent publication of The Lancet Commission on pollution and health is a watershed moment for one of the greatest challenges to cardiovascular health. In this Comment article, we discuss the global burden of air pollution on cardiovascular health.

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Figure 1: Conceptual diagram illustrating a combined population-level and individual-level approach to mitigating air pollution exposures and protecting cardiovascular health.

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R.V. is supported by grant 1R21HL140474. The content of this article is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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    •  & Valentin Fuster
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Hadley, M., Vedanthan, R. & Fuster, V. Air pollution and cardiovascular disease: a window of opportunity. Nat Rev Cardiol 15, 193–194 (2018) doi:10.1038/nrcardio.2017.207

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