🗞️ Cardiac MRI Study Affirms Link Between Air Pollution Exposure and Increased Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis

Cardiac MRI Study Affirms Link Between Air Pollution Exposure and Increased Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis

For people with dilated cardiomyopathy and those with initially normal cardiac MRI, each 1 ug/m3 increase in one-year exposure to ambient fine particulate matter with 2.5-um > aerodynamic diameter was associated with significantly more diffuse myocardial fibrosis, according to a recent study.

Air pollution exposure can be a key contributing factor to increasingly diffuse myocardial fibrosis, according to cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings from a new study. For the retrospective study, recently published in Radiology, resear... [3945 chars]

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