Question

Write 6 claims about how Air pollution affects people's health.

Each claim should include 6 bullet points explaining your claim.

Answer 1

Respiratory diseases

• particulate matter in air polution is major cause of broncho constriction and asthma
• Long duration of exposure to asbetos fumes may cause asbetosis
• Long duration of exposure cause restrictive lung disease
• Often assosiated with allergic rhinitis
• Air pollution enhances the severity of respiratory infections, particularly in children
• Maternal exposure to air pollution can directly influence the fetus through the transfer of pollutant chemicals through amniotic fluid and placenta

Cardiovascular damage

• case-crossover studies across the globe have explored the association between short-term changes in air pollution and daily changes in MI
• associated with a 1% increase in relative risk for admission to the hospital with stroke and stroke mortality
• associated with increased risk for heart failure hospitalization or death
• air pollution in the development of cardiometabolic risk factors such as hypertension
• Acute air pollution exposure has been shown to trigger atrial fibrillation
• The relationship between exposure to ambient air pollution and venous thromboembolism is uncertain. Some studies have demonstrated an association, whereas others have not

Nervous system damage.

• Stroke is one of the most prevalent CNS disorders which can be caused by air pollution
• Environmental exposures to metals, air pollution, and pesticides as well as nutritional factors are common risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases
• Air pollutants can affect the brain at any age, but the developing brain is particularly vulnerable because of its high neuronal proliferation and differentiation rates and its immature metabolism and imperfect BBB
• Air pollution can produce its adverse effects in the CNS through a variety of cellular and molecular mechanisms
• Particles smaller than 100 nm could be observed in intraluminal erythrocytes that were collected from frontal lobe and trigeminal ganglia capillaries from postmortem brain tissue
• air pollution-induced loss of neurons is a consistent finding in postmortem and experimental studies, and neuronal cell death may be direct or indirect via microglia activation

Cancers

• assosiated with nasopharyngial carcinoma
• assosiated with Juvanile nasopharyngial angiofibroma
• assosiated with Maxillary sinus carcinoma
• assosiated with Ethmoid sinus carcinoma
• assosiated with laryngial carcinoma
• assosiated with nasal cavity carcinoma

eyes, nose and throat

• assosiated with allergic rhinitis
• assosiated with gaint papillary conjunctivitis
• assosiated with allergic conjunctivitis
• assosiated with acute rhinosinusitis
• assosiated with chronic rhinosinusitis
• assosiated with nasal polyposis

Damage to reproductive organs

• thyroid dysfunction
• decreased fertility
• gross birth deformities
• male are feminized
• female can be masculinized; and
• compromised immune systems