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24 Οκτ 2024 · Ambient (outdoor) air pollution in both cities and rural areas was estimated to cause 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide per year in 2019; this mortality is due to exposure to fine particulate matter, which causes cardiovascular and respiratory disease, and cancers.
Air pollution (ambient and household), results from various emission sources like industrial activities, polluting fuel use in households, traffic (i.e., vehicles, trucks, etc.) and others, which constitutes a complex mixture of pollutants in the air that are harmful to health.
25 Νοε 2021 · The WHO estimates that 4.2 million die prematurely every year as the result of exposure to outdoor (or ambient) air pollution. As of November 2021 this is the latest WHO estimates of air pollution’s death toll and it refers to the year 2016.
Worldwide, ambient air pollution is estimated to cause about 16% of the lung cancer deaths, 25% of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) deaths, about 17% of ischaemic heart disease and stroke, and about 26% of respiratory infection deaths.
20 Δεκ 2022 · Both short and long-term exposure to ambient air pollution causes increased morbidity and excess mortality from multiple health endpoints (Manisalidis et al., 2020 ), though the latter has comparatively much larger impacts on public health, being significant even at very low exposure levels (Beverland et al., 2012; US EPA National Center for Env...
Air pollution – the combination of outdoor and indoor particulate matter and ozone – is a risk factor for many of the leading causes of death, including heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections, lung cancer, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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