Health Desk-21 Oct,
2019: Sudden spikes in air pollution in the UK trigger hundreds more heart
attacks, strokes and acute asthma attacks on those days, research suggests.
A team at King's College London looked at data from London,
Birmingham, Bristol, Derby, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford and
Southampton.
Days when pollutant levels were in the top half of the
annual range saw an extra 124 cardiac arrests on average.
NHS England boss Simon Stevens said it was evidence of
"a health emergency".
The figure is based on ambulance call data and does not
count heart attacks suffered by patients already in hospital.
It points to significant short-term health risks caused by
air pollution, on top of contributing to almost 500,000 premature deaths in
Europe every year.
Courtesy: BBC Health
http://amarhealth.com/environment-health/4587/Airpollutiontriggershundredsmoreheartattacksandstrokes
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