A new study by heart researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City finds that patients with heart disease, specifically those with heart failure, are especially vulnerable to the impacts of air pollution and poor air quality and can take steps to protect themselves.
Intermountain HealthcareNov 18 2024
While previous research has shown that people with some chronic health conditions, like heart failure, coronary disease, asthma, and COPD, struggle during spikes in air pollution, the new Intermountain Health study demonstrates that cardiac inflammation levels specifically rise in people with heart disease during periods of poor air quality.
For the retrospective study, Intermountain Health researchers worked with scientists at Stanford University and the Harvard School of Public Health to examine the blood of patients enrolled in the Intermountain INSPIRE registry, which collects blood and other biological samples, medical information and laboratory data from healthy individuals and those who have been diagnosed with a variety of medical conditions.
These spikes were caused by either wildfire smoke in the summer, or during a winter inversion, where air pollution is trapped when warm air holds pollution closer to the ground.
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