@article{Brauer_M-2021_108067,
title = {Taking a stand against air pollution – The impact on cardiovascular disease: A joint opinion from the World Heart Federation, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and the European Society of Cardiology},
author = {Brauer, M. and Casadei, B. and Harrington, R. and Kovács, R. and Sliwa, K. and Miller, M.},
month = {jan},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Although the attention of the world and the global health community specifically is deservedly focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, other determinants of health continue to have large impacts and may also interact with COVID-19. Air pollution is one crucial example. Established evidence from other respiratory viruses and emerging evidence for COVID-19 specifically indicates that air pollution alters respiratory defense mechanisms leading to worsened infection severity. Air pollution also contributes to co-morbidities that are known to worsen outcomes amongst those infected with COVID-19, and air pollution may also enhance infection transmission due to its impact on more frequent coughing. Yet despite the massive disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are reasons for optimism: broad societal lockdowns have shown us a glimpse of what a future with strong air pollution measures could yield. Thus, the urgency to combat air pollution is not diminished, but instead heightened in the context of the pandemic.},
pages = {e800-e804},
volume = {143},
issue = {14},
journal = {European Heart Journal},
publisher = {American Heart Association},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.052666},
}
