What Health Care Providers Should Know About
Particle Pollution and Cardiovascular Risk
Research
shows...
• Particle
pollution can trigger
heart attacks, stroke,
irregular heart rhythms
and cause other serious
heart problems at any
time of the year.
• An estimated 130,000
premature deaths and
180,000 non-fatal
heart attacks occur in
the U.S. each year due
to particle pollution.t
• 92% of cardiac patients are
not informed of health risks
related to air pollution.*
Help
your patients
understand risks
from air pollution
and how to
reduce them.
• Use the daily air
quality forecast on
AirNow.gov and
on weather reports
Read the "Heart
Disease, Stroke,
and Outdoor
Air Pollution"
handout at:
bitly/airnow-heart
Learn more at: AirNow.gov and
bitly/EPAhealthyheart
&EPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Contact: Dr. Wayne Cascio
EPA Environmental Public Health Division
919-966-0617 cascio.wayne@epa.gov
t Fann, Neal, et al. "Estimating the national public health burden associated with
exposure to ambient PM2. 5 and ozone." Risk analysis 32.1 (2012): 81-95.
* Nowka, Matthew R., et al. "Patient awareness of the risks for heart disease posed by
air pollution." Progress in cardiovascular diseases 53.5 (2011): 379-384.
EPA/601/F-15/003 September 2015
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