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Air pollution and cardiovascular disease: Can the Australian bushfires and global COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 convince us to change our ways?
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- Air pollution and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review of the effects of air pollution, including bushfire smoke, on cardiovascular disease.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2025Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital-based heart failure care in New South Wales, Australia: a linked data cohort study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Environmentally Not So Friendly: Global Warming, Air Pollution, and Wildfires: JACC Focus Seminar, Part 1.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2024Review
- An overview for monitoring and prediction of pathogenic microorganisms in the atmosphere.Fundamental research · 2024Review
- The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on air particulate matter exposure and heart attacks: a 5-year retrospective cohort study in Taiwan (2017-2021).Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Resveratrol and Gut Microbiota Synergy: Preventive and Therapeutic Effects.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Granzymes, IL-16, and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 increase during wildfire smoke exposure.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global · 2023Article
- The Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Air Pollution on Human Health: New Evidence from China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Effect of COVID-19 on air pollution related illnesses in India.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Regional air pollution severity affects the incidence of acute myocardial infarction triggered by short-term pollutant exposure: a time-stratified case-crossover analysis.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Links between chronic exposure to outdoor air pollution and cardiovascular diseases: a review.Environmental chemistry letters · 2022Review
- Air pollution and cardiovascular disease: Can the Australian bushfires and global COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 convince us to change our ways?BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Population Health Effects of Air Pollution: Fresh Evidence From China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Air pollution is a major global challenge for a multitude of reasons. As a specific concern, there is now compelling evidence demonstrating a causal relationship between exposure to airborne pollutants and the onset of cardiovascular disease (CVD). As such, reducing air pollution as a means to decrease cardiovascular morbidity and mortality should be a global health priority. This review provides an overview of the cardiovascular effects of air pollution and uses two major events of 2020-the Australian bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic lockdown-to illustrate the relationship between air pollution and CVD. The bushfires highlight the substantial human and economic costs associated with elevations in air pollution. Conversely, the COVID-19-related lockdowns demonstrated that stringent measures are effective at reducing airborne pollutants, which in turn resulted in a potential reduction in cardiovascular events. Perhaps one positive to come out of 2020 will be the recognition that tough measures are effective at reducing air pollution and that these measures have the potential to stop thousands of deaths from CVD.
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