The bottom line here is that air quality matters and worse air quality leads to the development not just of respiratory disease but of coronary disease as well.[MAIMONIDES]

Already a thousand years ago stressed by the great physician
and Tora giant: Maimonides [ Rambam] who was the Physician of the Sultan in Egypt.
Commentary: The relationship between air quality and both respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes has been described in many epidemiologic observational studies.1 This ststudy, supported by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), looked at the rate of coronary artery calcification progression in different cities with different levels of air pollution. The development of coronary artery calcification is related to the atherosclerosis. The bottom line here is that air quality matters and worse air quality leads to the development not just of respiratory disease but of coronary disease as well. —Neil Skolnik, MD