(Science Daily) In the healthy rat, prolonged exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) under conditions that mimic urban pollution leads to changes to cardiac morphology and function. Compensatory mechanisms develop in these animals to sustain normal cardiac activity, but they become more vulnerable to heart disease…
At a diagnostic level, and if these results can be extrapolated to humans, this study shows that the harmful effects of CO pollution may be difficult to detect using routine clinical investigations.
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