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Air pollution
Air pollution can affect our health in many ways. Different individuals are affected by air pollution in different ways. Some individuals are much more sensitive to pollutants than others. Young children and elderly people often suffer more from the effects of air pollution. People with health problems such as asthma, heart and lung disease may also suffer more when the air is polluted. Some short-term effects include irritation to the eyes, nose and throat, and upper respiratory infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia. Other symptoms can include headaches, nausea, and allergic reactions. Short-term air pollution can aggravate the medical conditions of individuals with asthma and emphysema. Long-term health effects can include chronic respiratory disease, lung cancer, heart disease, and even damage to the brain, nerves, liver, or kidneys. Continual exposure to air pollution affects the lungs of growing children and may aggravate or complicate medical conditions in the elderely.
-http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/Frames/pollution-health-effects-f.html
-http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/Frames/pollution-health-effects-f.html
In addition to respiratory effects, research has recognized that air pollution increases the risk of cardiovascular events such as arrhythmia, heart attack and stroke, and the occurrence of certain cancers. An inherent weakness in both the ear infection and appendicitis studies -- in many air pollution studies, for that matter -- is that air quality data for a geographical area are used as an estimate of what an individual actually inhales. The finding of new studies correlate air pollution inhalation to a wealth of additional health issues outside of those effecting respiration but more research on how air pollution might trigger these conditions as well as other nonrespiratory diseases is being studied.
-http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SNY1813-0-1736&artno=0000297629&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=2009%20air%20pollution&title=Air%20Pollution%3A%20Spewing%20Out%20Some%20More%20Bad%20News&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=N&ic=N
-http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SNY1813-0-1736&artno=0000297629&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=2009%20air%20pollution&title=Air%20Pollution%3A%20Spewing%20Out%20Some%20More%20Bad%20News&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=N&ic=N
Although air quality has improved over the past few decades, the EPA estimates that over 125 million Americans breathe unhealthy air--almost half of the U.S. population. Heart and lung disease aggravated by air pollutants result in as many as 64,000 premature deaths a year. Bad air causes more annual fatalities than car accidents
-http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SNY1813-0-2281&artno=0000108801&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=effects%20of%20air%20pollution&title=Bad%20Air%20Days&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=N&ic=N
-http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SNY1813-0-2281&artno=0000108801&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=effects%20of%20air%20pollution&title=Bad%20Air%20Days&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=N&ic=N
