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Article: Winter increases carbon monoxide exposure risk
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- University Wire
- Article date:
- December 4, 2002
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(Iowa State Daily) (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- As winter weather gets colder
and the thermostat is turned up, the risk of carbon monoxide exposure
increases as well.
Students living off campus in apartments and houses run the risk of
carbon monoxide exposure. Carbon monoxide leaks can occur in housing
that is heated with gas furnaces.
Lauri Dusselier, health promotions supervisor at the Thielen Student
Health Center, said carbon monoxide can be a serious health risk.
"There is always a risk when there is a furnace in the house," she
said.
Dusselier said exposure to carbon monoxide reduces the blood's ability
to carry oxygen. Effects of exposure include ...