{"id":2873,"date":"2014-08-25T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T20:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2014-08-26T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:37:38","slug":"hearths-hazardous-to-heart-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/hearths-hazardous-to-heart-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearths hazardous to heart health<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2868\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase6475c85fbdbb2ae9b2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2868\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2868\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase6475c85fbdbb2ae9b2.png\" alt=\"To investigate the effects of black carbon (BC) pollutants on the health of rural women cooking with wood fuel, Jill Baumgartner and colleagues measured the daily BC exposure of 280 women in China\u2019s rural Yunnan province. (Photo credit: Jill Baumgartner)\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase6475c85fbdbb2ae9b2.png 360w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase6475c85fbdbb2ae9b2-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">To investigate the effects of black carbon (BC) pollutants on the health of rural women cooking with wood fuel, Jill Baumgartner and colleagues measured the daily BC exposure of 280 women in China\u2019s rural Yunnan province. (Photo credit: Jill Baumgartner)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Black carbon pollutants from wood-burning stoves and vehicle emissions are associated with elevated blood pressure in Chinese women, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Black carbon is an air pollutant that comes from incomplete combustion of fossil fuels or wood; while it\u2019s only one component of airborne dust, this is the first study to single it out as a cause of high blood pressure, which in turn can lead to increased risk of heart disease and strokes. Half the world population cooks with these fuels, particularly in Asia, in Latin America and Africa, and even in Canada, wood heaters are common. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors recommend tracking black carbon as an indicator of population health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/08\/21\/1317176111.abstract?sid=ab57d19e-ae38-4a61-ae9b-17b539ed0486\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 25, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/apo\/listings\/new-faculty\/2013-2014\/baumgartner\" target=\"_blank\">Jill Baumgartner<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, McGill University, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black carbon pollutants from wood-burning stoves and vehicle emissions are associated with elevated blood pressure in Chinese women, a new study shows. Black carbon is an air pollutant that comes from incomplete combustion of fossil fuels or wood; while it\u2019s only one component of airborne dust, this is the first study to single it out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,1286,476,849],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-pollution","tag-public-health","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pngbase6475c85fbdbb2ae9b2.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}