Air filters can scrub out pollutants near highways, reduce blood pressure
- Written by Doug Brugge, Professor and Chair of Public Health Science and Community Medicine, University of Connecticut
Busy highways are large sources of air pollution. Larry D. Moore via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
For people living near busy highways, using air filters indoors results in short-term improvements to blood pressure, according to a new study I co-authored.
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