Exposure to air pollution more than 30 years ago may still affect an individual's mortality risk today.
«Exposure to air pollution 30 years ago associated with increased risk of death:
Exposure to air pollution more than 30 years ago may still affect an individual's mortality risk today.»
Exposure to air pollution more than 30 years ago may still affect an individual's mortality risk today, according to new research.
Not exact matches
«It may be, though, that long - term
exposure to air pollution makes people
more susceptible
to ALRI on a routine basis, although additional studies will be required
to test this hypothesis.»
For example, in the case of deaths due
to cardiovascular disease related
to PM 2.5
exposure, research now suggests that adding even small amounts of
pollution to relatively clean
air boosts disease risks
more than adding the same amount of
pollution to relatively dirty
air.
There are several in our city and there is a huge amount of truck traffic which slows down allowing
exposure to particulate
air pollution even
more.»
The study, conducted in mice, found that
exposure to air pollution during the equivalent of the first or second trimester in humans was linked
to more negative birth outcomes than
exposure later in pregnancy.
«Our study found
more recent
exposures were
more important for mortality risk than historic
exposures, but we need
to do
more work on how
air pollution affects health over a person's entire lifetime.
Hansell said that
more recent
exposure to air pollution was
more important for health than older
exposure.
Even though outdoor
air pollution can worsen the symptoms, indoor
air pollution from household products, building materials (sometimes containing asbestos or formaldehyde), and tobacco smoke can be even
more dangerous due
to constant
exposure.
The
pollution and poverty index is a ranking of each census tract as scored by the CalEnviroScreen (CES 2.0)-- it's a combination of poverty, language isolation, and
exposure to toxics in both
air and water that was generated by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (see oehha.ca.gov/ej/ces2.html for
more details).
Ageing populations in many industrialised societies become
more vulnerable
to the effects of
air pollution and urbanisation can also increase
exposure to pollutants from traffic.
The American Lung Association recognizes that energy and transportation sources of
air pollution are often located near where many people, especially communities of color or lower income, live and work, which means their
exposure to pollutants emitted can be
more immediate and disproportionately harmful.
More than 20 million people in the Midwest experience
air quality that fails
to meet national ambient
air quality standards.14 Degraded
air quality due
to human - induced emissions66 and increased pollen season duration67 are projected
to be amplified with higher temperatures, 68 and
pollution and pollen
exposures, in addition
to heat waves, can harm human health (Ch.
More men than women were found to have the condition, possibly because more men work outside, giving them a higher exposure to air pollution on «bad air quality» d
More men than women were found
to have the condition, possibly because
more men work outside, giving them a higher exposure to air pollution on «bad air quality» d
more men work outside, giving them a higher
exposure to air pollution on «bad
air quality» days.