Doctors should focus more on wider population threats: study
(NEWSER) - Air pollution causes more heart attacks than cocaine, and is as threatening a trigger as coffee, alcohol, and physical exertion, researchers find. They combined data from 36 individual studies in order to calculate each cause's population-attributable fraction, or PAF—basically, the proportion of all heart attacks attributed to each trigger. No. 1? Exposure to traffic, and the air pollution that comes with it. Following that, in descending order: physical exertion, alcohol, coffee, air pollution, and then triggers like anger, sex, cocaine use. More»
