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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 Davaakhuu, Narantuya Hadley, Michael Kass, Daniel Miller, Mark Nuñez, Maria Consuelo Escamilla Prabhakaran, Dorairaj TA-CHEN SU Vaartjes, Ilonca C.H. Vedanthan, Rajesh |
Keywords: | Air pollution | Cardiovascular disease | Climate | Cvd | Environmental health impacts;Air pollution; Cardiovascular disease; Climate; Cvd; Environmental health impacts | Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2021 | Journal Volume: | 16 | Journal Issue: | 1 | Source: | Global Heart | 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/123456789/559987 | ISSN: | 22118160 | DOI: | 10.5334/GH.948 | SDG/Keyword: | air pollution; Article; cardiovascular disease; climate; coronavirus disease 2019; environmental health; environmental impact; health care organization; human; pandemic; priority journal; acute disease; adverse event; air pollution; cardiology; cardiovascular disease; chronic disease; Europe; global health; inflammation; medical society; metabolism; oxidative stress; pathophysiology; United States; Acute Disease; Air Pollution; American Heart Association; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Diseases; Chronic Disease; COVID-19; Environmental Health; Europe; Global Health; Heart Disease Risk Factors; Humans; Inflammation; Oxidative Stress; SARS-CoV-2; Societies, Medical; United States |
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