In a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (February 2007), researchers found that each 10-unit increase in air levels of fine particulate matter increased the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by 76% . The Journal of the American Medical Association, reported in its March 8, 2006, issue, that air pollution was linked to an increase in hospitalizations from heart failure. For every 10 units increase in fine-particulate matter in the air, heart failure hospitalizations increased by 1.28% in people over the age of 65. Several researchers had previously reported in leading medical journals that short term increases in air pollution was linked to increased episodes of heart attacks, irregular heart rhythms, sudden death and heart failure.
The common pollutants in the air are ozone, volatile organic compounds, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, fine particulate matter, sulphur dioxide and lead. In the last several years, a growing body of scientific evidence has indicated that the air within our homes and office buildings can often be more seriously polluted than the outdoor air. They are all effective in removing the dangerous particulate matter.
Napoleon Bonaparte once said, "Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy." The medical community now confirms this - breathe clean air and you may prevent cardiovascular disease.
Now we may be able to add air pollution to the list of factors of modern life that increase heart disease risk.
For some time, we have known that air quality can make asthma and other lung diseases, like emphysema, worse. However, the mechanism by which pollution increased the risk of heart disease was unknown - until now.
In a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and the University of Michigan explored the effects of air pollution and diet on a specific strain of mouse. But even a small amount of air pollution, when combined with a high-fat diet, resulted in significant plaque formation.
These data indicate that air pollution has a far greater effect on health than we first realized. Heart disease, a major cause of death and illness in both men and women, may be aggravated by air pollution from industry and automobiles.
There are ways to lower your risk of heart disease.
The urbanization, industrial pollution air pollution and the massive use of chemical pollutants have accentuated the importance of these new diseases created by man. New medical studies have shown that air pollution from trucks exhaust, buses, cars and certain factories increase the risk of heart disease and fatal heart attacks. Once inflamed by pollution, the lungs secrete interleukin-6, a hormone of defense of the immune system that may aggravate the inflammation and makes it more conducive to blood clotting.
Air pollution can cause infertility, asthma and certain cancers
The more closed a domestic environment is, the more the air is polluted with major pollutants (acids, organic chemicals, metals, gases, and soil or dust particles); These pollutants can cause respiratory and inflammatory diseases - rhinitis, allergies, asthma, infertility, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, diabetes and certain systemic diseases (diseases that affect a number of organs and tissues, or affect the body as a whole).
Some combined chemicals have an ebullition power at low temperature and evaporate at room temperature.
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