RightHealth Daily Dose » respiratory http://dailydose.righthealth.com We feature the one health item you simply cannot afford to miss. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:50:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Long Term Ozone Exposure Linked To Respiratory Deaths http://dailydose.righthealth.com/cautions-concerns/long-term-ozone-exposure-linked-to-respiratory-deaths/ http://dailydose.righthealth.com/cautions-concerns/long-term-ozone-exposure-linked-to-respiratory-deaths/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:40:58 +0000 Steven http://dailydose.kosmix.com/?p=1371 New York University researchers published in the New England Journal of Medicine today that long term exposure to high levels of ozone, a main component of smog, is linked to an increased risk of death from respiratory diseases. Many studies have linked ozone to poor health, and others have shown that high-ozone days are linked to increased risk of acute health problems the next day, such as more asthma and heart attacks. However, this is the first study to demonstrate the effects of long term ozone exposure. In fact, the risk of dying from respiratory disease was more than 30 per cent higher in metropolitan areas with the highest ozone levels. During the 18-year study the city with the highest mean daily maximum ozone concentration was Riverside, California; the lowest ozone city was San Francisco. But even so, the average amount of ozone in San Francisco correlated with a 14 percent increase in death from respiratory diseases.

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