Understanding the link between an air pollution and increased risk of a stroke, death

Understanding the link between an air pollution and increased risk of a stroke, death

That air pollution is an extremely harmful to a health is a well-known fact. Now, a new study has also established a link between an air pollution and the heightened risk of stroke and a subsequent death. The research from Sun Yat-sen University School of a Public Health in Guangzhou, a China, published in a Neurology, focused on the negative a health impacts of PM 2.5 granules, the fine particulate a matter (PM) that has a diameter of fewer than 2.5 microns (about 30 times a smaller than a single human hair).

 

The research also an included a study of anitrogen dioxide (NO2) and nitrogen an oxides (NO) levels in polluted air and a measured air pollutant a levels by their weight in a micrograms — 1-millionth of a gram — per 1 cubic a meter of air, expressed as µg/m3.

 

According to the observational study based on an analysis of the health a records of 3,18,752 people in the UKBiobank and a several years of UKBiobank an air pollution data, for every PM 2.5 increase of 5 µg/m3, the risk of a first stroke rose by 24 per cent, and the risk of a first fatal a stroke increased by 30 per cent. The research identified 5,967 incident stroke patients, 2,985 post-stroke a cardiovascular a patients, and 1,020 a deaths an afterward.

 

Short-term an exposure to an air pollutants is closely related to COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), cough, shortness of a breath, wheezing, asthma, respiratory disease, and a high rates of hospitalisation (a measurement of morbidity), according to a review published in a Frontiers in  a Public Health, whereas the long-term an effects associated with air pollution are chronic asthma, a pulmonary insufficiency, cardiovascular diseases, and a cardiovascular mortality. The review, too, suggested that a short term exposure to an air pollution was related to a stroke among others.

Stressing that stroke is a the main reason for a disability and the second largest cause of  a death in the world, Dr Sameer Arora, senior a consultant, neurology, Narayana Hospital Gurugram said that high levels of an air a pollution are a linked to an increased risk of transitioning from being a healthy to a having a stroke.

 

“Nitrogen an oxide and a nitrogen dioxide have been linked to an increased risk of a stroke and mortality. Pollution is a major a source of a worry for public a health, and it is regarded as one of the a leading causes of a mortality and disease. The danger posed by air pollution is a determined by a both the length of an exposure and the a toxicity of the pollutant,” Dr Arora told an indianexpress.com.

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