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Air Pollution from Global Health to Individual Risk Factor—Is It Time for Enviropathies in Everyday Clinical Practice?
While the link between cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and air pollution is well-known, recent studies provided a growing body of evidence that polluted air, particularly air with high levels of particulate matter with a diameter smaller than 2.5 micrometers (PM 2.5), can have a range of n...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9367743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35954950 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159595 |
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author | Sciascia, Savino Gilcrease, Gregory Winston Roccatello, Lorenzo Padovan, Dario Peano, Cristiana Ricceri, Fulvio |
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description | While the link between cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and air pollution is well-known, recent studies provided a growing body of evidence that polluted air, particularly air with high levels of particulate matter with a diameter smaller than 2.5 micrometers (PM 2.5), can have a range of negative impacts on health, both in terms of mortality and morbidity. It is time to emphasize the role of environmental factors as contributory factors or determinants of both global and individual health levels, and to consider them together as a health priority, as enviropathies (meant as pathologies caused, triggered or worsened by environmental exposure). Bringing attention to harmful air pollution exposure has fostered population studies, which developed accurate quantification of environmental exposure in polluted regions, aiding our understanding of the dose-response relationship between pollutants and diseases. Those efforts have influenced local and global health policy strategies. Now we face the challenge of controlling environmental pollution and limiting individual exposure to prevent or avoid serious health risks. Is it time for enviropathies in everyday clinical practice? |
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spelling | pubmed-93677432022-08-12 Air Pollution from Global Health to Individual Risk Factor—Is It Time for Enviropathies in Everyday Clinical Practice? Sciascia, Savino Gilcrease, Gregory Winston Roccatello, Lorenzo Padovan, Dario Peano, Cristiana Ricceri, Fulvio Int J Environ Res Public Health Commentary While the link between cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and air pollution is well-known, recent studies provided a growing body of evidence that polluted air, particularly air with high levels of particulate matter with a diameter smaller than 2.5 micrometers (PM 2.5), can have a range of negative impacts on health, both in terms of mortality and morbidity. It is time to emphasize the role of environmental factors as contributory factors or determinants of both global and individual health levels, and to consider them together as a health priority, as enviropathies (meant as pathologies caused, triggered or worsened by environmental exposure). Bringing attention to harmful air pollution exposure has fostered population studies, which developed accurate quantification of environmental exposure in polluted regions, aiding our understanding of the dose-response relationship between pollutants and diseases. Those efforts have influenced local and global health policy strategies. Now we face the challenge of controlling environmental pollution and limiting individual exposure to prevent or avoid serious health risks. Is it time for enviropathies in everyday clinical practice? MDPI 2022-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9367743/ /pubmed/35954950 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159595 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Commentary Sciascia, Savino Gilcrease, Gregory Winston Roccatello, Lorenzo Padovan, Dario Peano, Cristiana Ricceri, Fulvio Air Pollution from Global Health to Individual Risk Factor—Is It Time for Enviropathies in Everyday Clinical Practice? |
title | Air Pollution from Global Health to Individual Risk Factor—Is It Time for Enviropathies in Everyday Clinical Practice? |
title_full | Air Pollution from Global Health to Individual Risk Factor—Is It Time for Enviropathies in Everyday Clinical Practice? |
title_fullStr | Air Pollution from Global Health to Individual Risk Factor—Is It Time for Enviropathies in Everyday Clinical Practice? |
title_full_unstemmed | Air Pollution from Global Health to Individual Risk Factor—Is It Time for Enviropathies in Everyday Clinical Practice? |
title_short | Air Pollution from Global Health to Individual Risk Factor—Is It Time for Enviropathies in Everyday Clinical Practice? |
title_sort | air pollution from global health to individual risk factor—is it time for enviropathies in everyday clinical practice? |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9367743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35954950 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159595 |
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