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Over the three months following the fires, the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles saw lots of patients from the city's most affected areas.
Now, researchers like cardiologist Joseph Ebinger have dug into that data to understand the fire's impact on Angelina's health.
They didn't see any change in the total number of visits, but they saw big shifts in the health problems people showed up with.
Some were expected, like a jump in lung issues.
Others were more surprising, like a...
They also saw huge increases in abnormal blood tests.
Ebinger says that could be a sign of overall stress on people's bodies from the particularly toxic smoke and ash produced by the fires, which burn through toxic materials like home insulation, cars, and batteries.
Over the three months following the fires, the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles saw lots of patients from the city's most affected areas.
Now, researchers like cardiologist Joseph Ebinger have dug into that data to understand the fire's impact on Angelino's health.
They didn't see any change in the total number of visits, but they saw big shifts in the health problems people showed up with.
Some were expected, like a jump in lung issues.
Others were more surprising, like a...
They also saw huge increases in abnormal blood tests.
Ebinger says that could be a sign of overall stress on people's bodies from the particularly toxic smoke and ash produced by the fires, which burned through toxic materials like home insulation, cars, and batteries.