Taking a Stand Against Air Pollution – The Impact on Cardiovascular Disease
In: Global Heart, Jg. 16 (2021)
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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.
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Taking a Stand Against Air Pollution – The Impact on Cardiovascular Disease
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Sliwa, Karen ; Casadei, Barbara ; Brauer, Michael ; Kovacs, Richard J. ; Harrington, Robert A. |
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Zeitschrift: | Global Heart, Jg. 16 (2021) |
Veröffentlichung: | Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2021 |
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ISSN: | 2211-8179 (print) |
DOI: | 10.5334/gh.948 |
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