Dear all
I would be grateful for your thaughts and comments on some
ramblings.
An article in todays Telegraph rekindled an interest in the
relationship between our local weather and cardio-respiratory diseases.
Research done in France has associated a 10 millibar pressure change
(up or down) with a >10% rise in the incidence of "heart attack" in
males and a drop in temperature of 10C is associated with >30% rise in
second "heart attacks" in males.
Living on the coastal strip, at the edge the West Pennine Moors
and close to Manchester, Liverpool, M6, M61 and the Irish Sea does focus
attention on pollution and the climate.
Four years ago I wrote off to The Met. Office at Bracknell and
was delighted by the response to my amaturish questions about droplet
sizes in mists and temperature changes in inspired / expired air. Adding
pollutants and a bit of "free radical" theory to the picture made it
become quite interesting but, the pressure of insurance medicals etc.
... the enthusiasm waned. However, I am still not convinced that all of
the heart and lung disease hereabouts can be put down to fish and chips
and fags (cigarettes not govt. ministers) quite so adamantly as it has.
The CARE project now running at Oxford's CEBM adds a new
dimension to following up ideas and their general model could be used
accross any subject and at any level of organisation or geographical
scale.
Perhaps I'll write to Bracknell again!
Is anybody else troubled by intrusive thaughts!
Don
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Dr Donovan Ross
Rosehill
Leyland Lane
Ulnes Walton
Leyland
Lancashire
PR5 3LB
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