It showed that, between 2000 and 2010, people of color saw roughly 40 percent
higher exposures to air pollution than white people.
A recent study by Tel Aviv University researchers provides new evidence linking
high exposure to air pollution to an increased risk of congenital malformations.
The researchers found that in all crude and adjusted models, levels of insulin resistance were greater in children with
higher exposure to air pollution.
For example, several studies have found that communities of color and poor communities experience disproportionately
high exposures to air pollution.305, 328,329,306,307 Climate change mitigation policies that improve local air quality thus have the potential to strongly benefit health in these communities.
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» days.
Not exact matches
But did you know that
exposure to tobacco smoke or even
high levels of
air pollution can increase the risk of ear infection in small children?
There is longstanding evidence that
exposure to high concentrations of
air pollution increases the risk for several diseases including heart attacks and European Union (EU) statutory
pollution limits are based on absolute upper values.
Exposure to high levels of
air pollution increased stress hormone levels and negative metabolic changes in otherwise healthy, young adults in a recent study conducted in China.
«Using
exposure to nitrogen dioxide as a surrogate for
exposure to traffic - related
air pollution, we were able
to demonstrate for the first time that
higher levels of
exposure were associated with greater right ventricular mass and larger right ventricular end - diastolic volume.
The effects of demoralization were greatest among children with
higher levels of prenatal
exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in
air pollution.
«While our study mainly followed SC infants, we also had the opportunity
to assess a small sample of pregnancies that were conceived through ART, and observed a
higher impact of
air pollution — particularly with regard
to ozone
exposure.
«Our results suggest that
exposure to higher levels of
air pollution during pregnancy is associated with various adverse pregnancy outcomes,» said Prof. Lerner - Geva.
In some instances, at age 18, the effect of long - term
exposure to higher air pollution was larger than the effect of gaining 5 percent body weight, meaning
air pollution is definitely a risk factor for diabetes, said Tanya Alderete, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research scholar at the Keck School of Medicine.
In babies born pre-closure, researchers found
higher levels of PAH - DNA cord adducts, a biomarker for
exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a toxic component of
air pollution from coal plants.
Men and women responded
to air pollutants differently: HDL was lower at
higher pollution exposure for both sexes, but the magnitude was greater in women.
A new study finds that long - term
exposure to fine - particle
air pollution — formed by the gasses of cars, power plants, and other sources — is associated with much
higher mortality rates from cancers of the breast, upper digestive tract, and other organs.
Youngsters with stressed - out parents and
exposure to air pollution have a
higher risk of asthma, according
to a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Curriculum will discuss how poor communities and communities of color have
higher exposure to environmental health risk factors like
pollution, and less access
to the benefits provided by the environment such as clean
air and open space.
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.
This analytical document aims
to be a tool
to present compelling scientific evidence on the most severe consequences of the continued
exposure to high level of
air pollution of Mongolian children.
A comparison of medical records from 81,186 single child births
to air pollution levels in the area revealed that
high pollution exposure raised the risk of a severely premature birth by 128 percent.»
In fact, in some places, the
high levels of
air pollution can outweigh the benefits of cycling or walking, so monitoring the
air quality and adjusting our activity levels accordingly can be an effective way of minimizing
exposure to air pollutants.