Assessing the health burden from air pollution
Torben Sigsgaard, Barbara Hoffmann
Abstract
Human health is affected by air pollution, causing cardiometabolic, respiratory, and neurological disease and increased mortality. Pollutants include gases [for example, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), NOx, and ozone] and particulate matter, which is commonly characterized by its aerodynamic diameter of less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) or less than 10 μm (PM10). Air pollutants are mainly emitted by energy production, industry, traffic, heating, and agriculture. Exposure to air pollution affects most organ systems, causing a wide array of physiological changes, organ dysfunction, and manifest clinical disease (1, 2). Therefore, a burden of disease assessment that adequately reflects all related exposure-outcome relationships and their impacts on disease and mortality in the target population is important to guide population-based prevention.
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Torben Sigsgaard, Barbara Hoffmann
Abstract
Human health is affected by air pollution, causing cardiometabolic, respiratory, and neurological disease and increased mortality. Pollutants include gases [for example, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), NOx, and ozone] and particulate matter, which is commonly characterized by its aerodynamic diameter of less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) or less than 10 μm (PM10). Air pollutants are mainly emitted by energy production, industry, traffic, heating, and agriculture. Exposure to air pollution affects most organ systems, causing a wide array of physiological changes, organ dysfunction, and manifest clinical disease (1, 2). Therefore, a burden of disease assessment that adequately reflects all related exposure-outcome relationships and their impacts on disease and mortality in the target population is important to guide population-based prevention.
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