a day agoStudy: Over 30,000 deaths may have been caused by air pollution
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)More than 30,000 deaths in the United States in a single year may have been caused by air pollution, according to a study published Tuesday. These deaths came even when almost every circuit in the United States remained within the federal air quality standards. This suggests that they are necessary [...]
These deaths came even when almost every circuit in the United States remained within the federal air quality standards.
This suggests stricter rules are needed to protect human health, researchers say.
I think the big conclusion is that lowering air pollution limits could delay in the US tens of thousands of deaths each year”, said Majid Ezzat, the lead author of research and professor of global environmental health at the Imperial College in London.
Research, published today in the magazine PLOS Medicine analyzed the death toll for 2015, the latest year available.
Researchers analyzed air quality trends since 1999 to over 750 monitoring stations across the United States.
They specifically analyzed small, sensitive particles that can enter the bloodstream.
