Beyond BMI: Waist size can show who is most at risk from air pollution

Ultrafine particulate aerial contamination floats done the aerial similar a miasma, leaving bosom disease, dementia and asthma successful its wake. But ultrafine contamination doesn't impact everyone equally. Researchers from the University of Connecticut and Tufts University study connected July 28 successful the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology that a larger waist—indicating much abdominous astir the organs—makes radical much vulnerable.