People who live within 1,500 feet of a highway may be more likely to develop cardiovascular disease compared with people who live twice as far away, the Boston Globe reports.
The research, which is scheduled to be published in Environment International, examined Boston residents who live or spend a significant amount of time near a busy highway. For more on the findings, click the link below:
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.