Air Pollution and High Blood Pressure – What’s the Link?

Led by an Indian-origin researcher, a group of cardiovascular researchers of the Ohio State University Medical Center discovered a link between air pollution and how it has an impact on hypertension or high blood pressure.

Sanjay Rajagopalan, the section director of vascular medicine of Ohio State Medical Center and the co-author of the study states, “We now have even more compelling evidence of the strong relationship between air pollution and cardiovascular disease.”

In order to establish a conclusion to the study, rats were exposed to levels of airborne pollutants that humans breathe everyday. The experiment denoted that the levels were considerably below levels that are found in developing countries such as China, India, and in some parts of the United States.

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