Traffic Can Trigger Heart Attacks

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Traffic Can Trigger Heart Attacks

Contributed by Jai A. Dennison| 21 October, 2004 13:39 GMT

As though there were not enough reasons to hate spending time in traffic, here is another: That daily commute could give you a heart attack. German researchers have observed a correlation between myocardial infarctions and traffic -- regardless of the means of conveyance.

The study, initiated by the GSF

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