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This randomized crossover trial sought to determine whether wearing a high-efficiency particulate-filtering respirator (PFR) improves cardiovascular function over 48 h among healthy college students in Tehran....
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Clearing the air to treat hypertension
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Coronary artery calcium scoring in patients with hypertension
Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is increased by high blood pressure (BP), predicts new-onset hypertension, and is a powerful predictor of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events in patients with and withou...
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Open AccessStudy protocol for a stepped-wedge randomized cookstove intervention in rural Honduras: household air pollution and cardiometabolic health
Growing evidence links household air pollution exposure from biomass-burning cookstoves to cardiometabolic disease risk. Few randomized controlled interventions of cookstoves (biomass or otherwise) have quanti...
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Echoes from Gaea, Poseidon, Hephaestus, and Prometheus: environmental risk factors for high blood pressure
High blood pressure (BP) affects over one billion people and is the leading risk factor for global mortality. While many lifestyle and genetic risk factors are well-accepted to increase BP, the role of the ext...