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Particulate air pollution is associated with elevated C-reactive protein and increased cardiac risk.
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Air pollution may increase cardiac risk via CRP; extends observational links but leaves causal and practice implications open for trials.
C. Arden Pope, III; Particulate air pollution, C-reactive protein, and cardiac risk, European Heart Journal, Volume 22, Issue 14, 1 July 2001, Pages 1149–1150,
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