Reposted by Deepti Singh
You've probably heard wildfire smoke is bad for you, but how bad? Our new paper in Sci Rep shows even low-level wildfire-specific PM2.5 (10–50 µg/m³) is linked to more hospital encounters (e.g., heart attacks, heart failure, AFib, cardiac, COPD & PE).
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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