How Pollution Impacts Your Health
WEBMar 1, 2023 · We talked to a pulmonologist about common types of pollution, the risks they pose to your health and what you can do to protect yourself.
How air pollution is destroying our health - World Health Organization ...
WEBNov 1, 2018 · There is emerging evidence linking air pollution exposure to cancer, neurodevelopmental and metabolic diseases in children. As well as affecting our health, pollutants in the air are also causing long-term environmental damage by driving climate change, itself a major threat to health and well-being.
Air Pollution and Your Health - National Institute of …
WEBAug 6, 2024 · Public health concerns related to high air pollution exposures include cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory diseases, diabetes mellitus, obesity, and reproductive, neurological, and immune system disorders. Research on air pollution and health effects continually advances.
Health consequences of air pollution - World Health Organization …
WEBJun 25, 2024 · In 2019, air pollution caused about 6.7 million deaths. Of these, almost 85% are attributable to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including ischemic heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and …
Air Pollution | Climate and Health - CDC
WEBMar 2, 2024 · Health impact Health. Climate change is projected to harm human health by increasing ground-level ozone and/or particulate matter air pollution in some locations. Ground-level ozone (a key component of smog) is associated with many health problems: Decreased lung function; Increased hospital visits; Increased emergency room visits for …
Air Pollution Facts, Causes and the Effects of Pollutants in the Air - NRDC
WEBOct 31, 2023 · Learn about what causes air pollution and how to help reduce the effects. How smog, soot, greenhouse gases, and other top air pollutants are affecting the planet—and your health.
Air Quality and Health - Johns Hopkins Medicine
WEBFrequent exposure to air pollution can raise your risk of: Respiratory disease such as. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD or emphysema) Asthma. Chronic bronchitis. Breast cancer. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Lung cancer.
Air pollution: The invisible health threat - World Health Organization ...
WEBJul 12, 2023 · WHO estimates that, globally, air pollution is responsible for about 7 million premature deaths per year from ischemic heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer, but also from acute respiratory infections such as pneumonia which mainly affects children in low- and middle-income countries.
Pollution and health: a progress update - The Lancet
WEBMay 17, 2022 · Summary. The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden …
Air Pollution’s Invisible Toll on Your Health - The New York Times
WEBJun 28, 2021 · The report, published in the journal Circulation, found that years of breathing low concentrations of fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone “poses a significant risk to...
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