No Way! Air Pollution Intensifies Cardiovascular Risk
We are now days thinking a lot on the mounting air pollution and are getting prepared for a final onslaught against the tirade of global warming. Though much has been learnt yet but have you heard of the association of the saga of air pollution to the crucial indicators of cardiovascular risk in healthy young adults? If not take this from the researchers of the National Taiwan University study who have come to this conclusion. Believe it or not but there are definite indications according to them that the escalating cardiovascular risk has a fair indication to include inflammation, oxidative stress, coagulation and autonomic dysfunction.
The study led by the researchers of the University under Chang-Chuan Chan had gone through an extensive array of reports over the effect of familiar urban air pollutants in general. It had been cited that there happened to be a drastic effect on the biological markers for inflammation, oxidative stress, coagulation and autonomic dysfunction in 76 healthy Taiwanese college students. As a part of the process through the collection of blood samples there was the conduction of electrocardiograms on each subject over a period of 30 days for the months of April, May and June in either 2004 or 2005. It was then followed by the correlation of the sample dates and time with monitoring data from a fixed-site air monitoring station on the students' campus. The intensity of common urban air pollutants was assessed at an average level of over 24, 48 and 72 hours. There was also the finding of imperative development in almost all indications of cardiovascular risk that were envisaged to be associated with the elevated exposure to common pollutants.
On their achievement Chan said, "This study provides evidence that urban air pollution is associated with systemic inflammation/oxidative stress, impairment of the fibrinogenic system, activation of blood coagulation and alterations in the autonomic nervous system in young, healthy humans."
