A team of Italian scientists has closely linked air pollution to cardiac arrest, showing that short-term exposure to pollutants such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and benzene raised the risk of cardiac arrest outside the hospital.
“In addition to being a threat to the ecosystem, evidence is accumulating that dirty air should be considered a modifiable factor that contributes to cardiovascular disease,” the paper’s first author, Francesca Romana Gentile of the University of Pavia Fondazione and the IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, said in a press release.
