Analysis - Air pollution has an alarming effect on global health. In 2019, it was responsible for 4.2 million global deaths. Inhaling air pollution harms health in many different ways beyond simply having effects on the lungs. Over 70% of air pollution deaths are due to cardiovascular diseases - diseases of the heart and blood vessels, such as heart attacks and strokes.

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Africa: Heart Attacks and High Blood Pressure Are On the Rise in Africa - What Does Air Pollution Have to Do With It?

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Air pollution has an alarming effect on global health. In 2019, it was responsible for 4.2 million global deaths. Inhaling air pollution harms health in many different ways beyond simply having effects on the lungs. Over 70% of air pollution deaths are due to cardiovascular diseases—diseases of the heart and blood vessels, such as heart attacks and strokes.

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Heart attacks and high blood pressure are on the rise in Africa—what does air pollution have to do with it?

Air pollution has an alarming effect on global health. In 2019, it was responsible for 4.2 million global deaths. Inhaling air pollution harms health in many different ways beyond simply having effects on the lungs. Over 70% of air pollution deaths are due to cardiovascular diseases – diseases of the heart and blood vessels, such as heart attacks and strokes. For many years, cardiovascular diseases were considered to be more of a problem of more…

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Heart attacks and high blood pressure are on the rise in Africa – what does air pollution have to do with it?

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Iranian Health Minister Mohammad Reza Zaferkandi said air pollution caused 50,000 deaths in the country last year. Zaferkandi said that 353 days of polluted air had been inhaled in Tehran, adding that the economic damage amounted to $12 billion.

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Marvellous Adeoye, University of Essex; Mariachiara Di Cesare, University of Essex, and Mark R Miller, University of Edinburgh Air pollution has an alarming effect on global health. In 2019, it was responsible for 4.2 million global deaths. Inhaling air pollution harms health in many different ways beyond simply having effects on the lungs. Over 70% of air pollution deaths are due to cardiovascular diseases – diseases of the heart and blood vess…

Africa: Heart Attacks and High Blood Pressure Are On the Rise in Africa - What Does Air Pollution Have to Do With It?

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