Death By Traffic
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 arent tied up on the road, according to study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Thanks to Joel Hirschhorn
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Published on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 in
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