This isn’t just us talking, researchers have approved of the fact that air pollution today is hazardous to cardiac health. In simple words, the impure air you carelessly breathe in is wreaking havoc in your cardiac system.
Pollution just isn’t all about traffic, while it remains one of the biggest reasons another major contributor to messing the air up, contrary to popular belief. Smoking is one of the biggest reasons for air pollution today, causing a risk and health hazard to those doing it and those around them. There’s a wide variety of stuff out there in the air that we breathe in, some natural and some man-made that affect our cardiovascular system in a harmful way.
Acute short-term effects of air pollution tend to strike people who are elderly or already struggling with heart disease, said Dr. Luepker, who is also an epidemiologist. When old or semi-old people who have existing ailments of the heart are faced with increased pollution, it’s sort of the last nail in the coffin and pushes them off the cliff into the depths of the valley of a possibility of strokes! Let’s say for instance a person suffering from astherclorosis or fatty deposits on the inner lining of the arteries, faces instant difficulty when faced with pollution and the risk of the blood vessels getting ruptured shoots up. What follows is something known as a heart attack. And mind you, it’s not pleasant at all. Just because we said old people do not mean that pollution is not harmful to the younger folk!
The connection between air pollution and stroke is far greater than previously perceived, with researchers all over the world concluding the same thing – chances of stroke almost double when a weaker or elder individual is exposed to dirty, polluted air.
Over the course of the next few years, governments need to curb air pollution by implementing the right measures. What you can do on a grass root level, is stop smoking yourself or try and curb the practice among your loved ones at least!