HIGHER RISK OF LUNG CANCER, HEART DISEASE
PM2.5 molecules can penetrate deeply into individuals ‘ breathing due to their tiny size, leading to health issues that particularly affect vulnerable groups like children, the elder, and those with respiratory conditions.
Additionally, long-term exposure to polluted air may cause heart disease, strokes, or even heart tumor, related to cigarette use.
According to the NTU research, PM2.5 pollution caused 49 million Chinese people’s unnecessary deaths. The number was 26.1 million in India.
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Japan also recorded significant amounts of early deaths due to PM2.5 waste, ranging from 2 to 5 million each.
LKCMedicine professor Joseph Sung, who co- authored the investigation, noted:” We are seeing more and more people who have never been tobacco, especially females, that might get this illness and the trend seems to be rising over the past decades”.
Healthcare providers you better prepare for the possibility of more people seeking treatment for pollution-related illnesses by acknowledging these trends, said Professor Sung, who is also the school’s senior vice president of health and life science.
According to the study, a fourth of the unnecessary deaths that occurred between 1980 and 2020 were thought to be related to injury.
Another second were associated with ischemic heart disease, while the remainder were linked to COPD, lower lung diseases, and lung cancers.