Abstract
and insulin resistanceAs the saying goes ‘‘What’s good for the liver is bad for the heart.’’What is bad for the liver, however, is not necessarily good for theheart especially when it comes to the inhalation of ambient par-ticulate matter (PM). In 1993, the Six Cities study [1] providedevidence that airborne PM increases overall mortality, and fol-low-up studies [2,3] demonstrate it specifically increases cardio-vascular mortality. Twenty years after this landmark study,Zheng et al. demonstrate that PM exposure is also detrimentalto the liver wherein short-term exposure (10 weeks) of mice ona low-fat diet to concentrated ambient PM
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