Taking a Stand Against Air Pollution—The Impact on Cardiovascular Disease
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- 6 April 2021
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- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation
- Vol. 143 (14), e800-e804
- https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.120.052666
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 comorbidities that are known to worsen outcomes among 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.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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