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Small Air Pollution Increases Linked to Fibrosis

A large imaging study found that even small increases in long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution were linked to higher levels of myocardial fibrosis, a known marker of adverse heart remodeling, in both healthy individuals and patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.

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  1. Long-term PM2.5 exposure increases myocardial fibrosis.
  2. Study involved 694 adults, with 493 having dilated cardiomyopathy.
  3. Cardiac MRI used for assessing myocardial damage.
  4. Higher PM2.5 linked to changes in heart volume and ejection fraction.
  5. Women and hypertensive individuals at higher risk from PM2.5 exposure.

Source: Radiology

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