Yellow Dust Increases Heart Attack Risk: Japan Team (News) [September 8] - 一般社団法人 ラテンアメリカ協会

Yellow Dust Increases Heart Attack Risk: Japan Team (News) [September 8]


Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)―A Japanese research team said Monday it has confirmed that yellow dust increases the risk of acute myocardial infarction.
The risk was 1.46 times higher than normal on the next days of the arrivals of yellow sand, according to the team, including Kojima Sunao of Kumamoto University and researchers mainly at the National Institute for Environmental Studies.
Exposure t…