Ozone Can Affect Heavier People More

Posted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases on November 27th, 2007 at 10:32am

Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) analyzed data on young (18–35 years), healthy, non-smoking men and women to see if BMI -- a measure of the amount of fat a person has -- had an effect on lung response to acute ozone exposure.

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