Firdaus Khan
Men, postmenopausal women, and elderly people are most likely to be affected. The doctors at West Virginia University School of Medicine conducted tests with rats. They found that exposure to PQ reduced by about 65 percent the ability of arteries to regulate blood flow to bone marrow in six– month–old male rats. PQ had a similar effect in older male and female rats and in young female rats whose ovaries had been removed.
Because young female rats with intact ovaries were not affected, it appears that estrogen may provide protective effects against PQ. Previous research has found that PQ impaired the ability of larger blood vessels to relax and that exposure to particle pollution may worsen cardiovascular diseases in certain people
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