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Title: | Taking a Stand Against Air Pollution-The Impact on Cardiovascular Disease: A Joint Opinion from the World Heart Federation, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and the European Society of Cardiology | Authors: | Brauer, Michael Casadei, Barbara Harrington, Robert A Kovacs, Richard Sliwa, Karen TA-CHEN SU |
Keywords: | CVD; air pollution; cardiovascular disease; climate; environmental health impacts | Issue Date: | 2021 | Journal Volume: | 77 | Journal Issue: | 13 | Source: | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | Abstract: | Although the attention of the world and the global health community specifically is deservedly focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, other determinants of health continue to have large impacts and may also interact with COVID-19. Air pollution is one crucial example. Established evidence from other respiratory viruses and emerging evidence for COVID-19 specifically indicates that air pollution alters respiratory defense mechanisms leading to worsened infection severity. Air pollution also contributes to co-morbidities that are known to worsen outcomes amongst those infected with COVID-19, and air pollution may also enhance infection transmission due to its impact on more frequent coughing. Yet despite the massive disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are reasons for optimism: broad societal lockdowns have shown us a glimpse of what a future with strong air pollution measures could yield. Thus, the urgency to combat air pollution is not diminished, but instead heightened in the context of the pandemic. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/579750 | ISSN: | 07351097 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.12.003 |
Appears in Collections: | 環境職業醫學科 |
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