Taking a Stand Against Air Pollution-The Impact on Cardiovascular Disease

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

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Editorial Material

Brauer, Michael^1,2  Casadei, Barbara³  Harrington, Robert A.⁴  Kovacs, Richard⁵  Sliwa, Karen⁶ 

[1] Univ British Columbia, Sch Populat & Publ Hlth, World Heart Federat Air Pollut Expert Grp, Vancouver, BC, Canada

[2] Univ Washington, Inst Hlth Metr & Evaluat, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[3] Univ Oxford, Radcliffe Dept Med, European Soc Cardiol, Oxford, England

[4] Stanford Univ, Amer Heart Assoc, Dept Med, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA

[5] Indiana Univ Sch Med, Amer Coll Cardiol, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA

[6] Univ Cape Town, Hatter Inst Cardiovasc Res Africa, Dept Med, World Heart Federat, Cape Town, South Africa

关键词: air pollution;    cardiovascular disease;    CVD;    environmental health impacts;    climate;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jacc.2020.12.003

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

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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