Stephen Wilton News Today

Stephen Wilton is a cardiologist and clinical scientist at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary. He studies the causes and consequences of cardiovascular disease and its treatment, and has written about the links between climate change, air pollution, and heart disease. Wilton volunteers for the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

According to a 2019 report by the World Health Organization, more than 20 per cent of cardiovascular deaths are caused by air pollution, not unlike smoke-filled air from wildfires.