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Death By Traffic

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Joel Hirschhorn
22 October 2004 - 8:00am

Connection between traffic congestion and heart attacks is found.

In addition to sprawl kills having validity, “killer commute” has now been confirmed as a real phenomenon. People caught in traffic are three times more likely to suffer a heart attack within the hour than those who aren’t tied up on the road, according to study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Full Story: Study links traffic jams and heart attacks
Source: MSNBC, October 20, 2004
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At a much larger economic scale, however, one mustn’t avoid calculating the tremendous and exceptional externalities of automobile dependency.
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