TY - JOUR
AU - Brauer, Michael
AU - Casadei, Barbara
AU - Harrington, Robert
AU - Kovács, Richard
AU - Sliwa, Karen
AU - Miller, Mark R
PY - 2021
DA - January
TI - 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
JO - European Heart Journal
EP - e804
VL - 143
IS - 14
DO - https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.052666
AB - 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.
PB - American Heart Association
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/a621fa1d-946c-43de-9227-fd1c59332d88
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Environment, community and place
ER