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Tag Archives: Health Effects of Air Pollution
Air pollution may lead to brain cancer
A team of researchers is set to conduct a study to determine if several potentially toxic compounds that exist in polluted air are capable of entering the brain from the bloodstream and causing brain cancer. The research by scientists at … Continue reading
Air pollution increases risk for hypertension in pregnant women
Breathing the air outside their homes may be just as toxic to pregnant women — if not more so — as breathing in cigarette smoke, increasing a mom-to-be’s risk of developing deadly complications such as preeclampsia, according to findings from … Continue reading
Pollution increasing lung cancer in Indian women
In a worrying trend noted by oncologists, lung cancer is increasing rapidly among Indian women. The foremost reason, much against popular perception, is not smoking but environmental pollution. India has just slipped 32 ranks in the global Environment Performance Index … Continue reading
Obesity And Air Pollution: Overweight People Breathe In More Contaminants
A new study by Dr. Pierre Brochu at Université de Montréal’s School of Public Health has found that adults who are obese or even overweight actually breathe in seven to 50 percent more air per day than adults at healthier … Continue reading
Chronic effects of ambient air pollution on respiratory morbidities among Chinese children: a cross-sectional study in Hong Kong
The chronic health effects from exposure to ambient air pollution are still unclear. This study primarily aims to examine the relationship between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and respiratory morbidities in Chinese children. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted … Continue reading
Davos report highlights worsening global air quality
Air quality around the world is plummeting, according to the latest version of an annual report, issued at the Davos Summit over the weekend. Produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia universities, the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks performance in … Continue reading
More diseases from air pollution uncovered by improved data material
At rest, we breathe approx. 12-15 times per minute, and for each inhalation we change approx. one litre of air. Depending on the activity level, this makes up a daily quantity in the order of twenty cubic metres of air … Continue reading
EU air pollution target ‘still too high’ for heart health
A study confirming a link between atmospheric pollution and heart-attack risk strengthens the EU case for tougher clean-air targets, experts say. Research in the BMJ looking at long-term data for 100,000 people in five European countries found evidence of harm, … Continue reading
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