This mis-administration is the worst environmental abuser I've seen in
my lifetime. Bush screwed Texas and took what he learned there and
screwed the world.
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Air Pollution Increases Blood Clot Risk
May 13, 2008(WebMD) Air pollution increases the risk of deep vein
thrombosis (DVT) -- dangerous blood clots in the veins -- even at
pollution levels the EPA deems "acceptable."
Harvard researcher Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, and colleagues in Italy
studied 870 people diagnosed with DVT from 1995 to 2005. They compared
their particulate air pollution exposure in the year before their
diagnosis to that of 1,210 matched people without DVT.
They found that DVT risk goes up 70% for every 10
microgram-per-cubic-meterrise in particulate air pollution above 12
micrograms per cubic meter of air (the lowest pollution level measured
in the study).
The U.S. EPA standard for particulate air pollution is 150 micrograms
per cubic meter of air. However, it's likely that fine and very fine
particles cause most of the health risks linked to particulate air
pollution. The EPA sets much lower standards for these smaller
particles, which Baccarelli and colleagues did not specifically measure.
"Our findings introduce a novel and common risk factor into the
pathogenesis of DVT and, at the same time, give further substance to the
call for tighter standards and continued efforts aimed at reducing the
impact of urban air pollutants on human health," Baccarelli and
colleagues conclude.
Air pollution affects the heart and blood vessels even more than the
lungs, notes Robert D. Brook, MD, a University of Michigan expert on the
cardiovascular effects of air pollution. An editorial by Brook
accompanies the Baccarelli re****t in the May 12 issue of Archives of
Internal Medicine.
The study, Brook notes, adds DVT to a long list of cardiovascular
illnesses linked to air pollution that includes heart attacks, heart
failure, stroke, and sudden death.
However, Brook warns that while Baccarelli and colleagues link air
pollution to a huge increase in DVT risk, part of this result may be due
to chance or the unique cir***stances of the population studied. Other
studies are needed to better determine the absolute risk.
Even so, Brook says, we don't have to wait for these studies -- we
already know that air pollution, even at current levels, is not healthy.
"You do not need to know every last detail about the archer who shot you
with a poison arrow before you know you need to pull the arrow out," he
writes.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/12/health/webmd/printable4089842.shtml
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WAR IS A RACKET
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most
vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one
in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
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http://warisaracket.com/
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