Air Pollution and Cardiometabolic Health: Diet’s Mitigating Role

Air pollutants affect cardiometabolic health even at low levels, but diet may mitigate the outcomes. Exposure to air pollutants, even at very low concentrations, was associated with adverse changes in cardiometabolic risk factors in a recent Finnish study. The main pollutant affecting these risk factors was particulate matter, which can be emitted from traffic and wood burning, amongst other sources. Interestingly, diet quality appeared to modify several associations of pollutants with cardiometabolic health. The study was carried out at the University of Eastern Finland in collaboration with the University of Oulu, as part of the EU-funded LongITools project. The results

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