[MCN] Cost of growth: Traffic exhaust near homes increases risk of stroke, ischemic heart disease

[Lance Olsen]

News Release 30-Oct-2019
Traffic exhaust at residential address increases the risk of stroke
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
High levels of traffic exhaust at one's residence increases the risk of stroke even in low-pollution environments, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and other universities in Sweden. The study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, suggests that it is mainly black carbon from traffic exhaust that increases the risk for stroke, and not particulate matter from other sources.

JOURNAL
Environmental Health Perspectives
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/ki-tea103019.php>Full release https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/ki-tea103019.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/ki-tea103019.php>
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“In a corrupt environment, resources will be directed toward such non-productive areas as the police, armed forces and other organs of social control and repression as the elites move to protect themselves, their positions and their material wealth … and resources otherwise available for socio-economic development will be diverted into security expenditure."

John McFarlane. Transnational Crime, Corruption and Crony Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century. Transnational Organized Crime. Vol. 4 No. 2, Summer 1998

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“Politicians strain to outdo each other with promises to 'get tough' on crime and to bring law and order back to the streets….There is no question that common street crime is an important social concern. But its image has become so bloated in the mirror of public opinion that it blocks our view of the white collar crimes which are both more costly and more dangerous to society."

James Coleman. The Criminal Elite. 1985. St. Martin's Press



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