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In this month’s Thorax we publish four papers on various aspects of air pollution. The first two papers deal with the issue of the relationship between air pollution and increased cardiovascular morbidity. Schwartz and colleagues report a study of elderly subjects in Boston and show that particles—especially black carbon which is an indicator of traffic particles—are associated with impaired autonomic control of the heart. However, in a study in Seattle Sullivan and colleagues found no relation between increased residence levels of particulate matter and heart rate variability in older people. In the accompanying editorial Townend explains why the two studies have come to different conclusions, including the point that the composition of the particles may be different in Boston and Seattle. Hwang and colleagues investigated the effect of air pollution on the risk of childhood asthma in a cross sectional study of Taiwanese school children. The results show that long
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