Diesel Exhaust + Cholesterol = Clogged Arteries
Filed in archive Cases , Studies by Gloria Gamat on July 30, 2007

According to principal investigator Dr. André Nel, chief of nanomedicine at the David Geffen
School of Medicine at UCLA and a researcher at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute:"When you add one plus one, it normally totals two. But we found that adding diesel particles to cholesterol fats equals three. Their combination creates a dangerous synergy that wreaks cardiovascular havoc far beyond what's caused by the diesel or cholesterol alone."
The said findings - published in the July 26 edition of the online journal Genome Biology - are the first to explain how fine particles in air pollution conspire with artery-clogging fats to switch on the genes that cause blood vessel inflammation and lead to cardiovascular disease.
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