Climate Change and Lung Health
Climate Change and Lung Health
Climate change creates conditions, including heat and stagnant air, which increase the risk of unhealthful ozone levels. Ground-level ozone, ...
Climate Changes Health: Respiratory Health
Poor air quality leads to reduced lung function, increased risk of asthma complications, heart attacks, heart failure, and death.
Climate change and respiratory diseases
Climate change represents a massive direct threat to respiratory health by promoting or aggravating respiratory diseases or indirectly by increasing exposure ...
Climate change and respiratory diseases - PMC
Climate change increases the amount of pollen and allergen produced by each plant, mould proliferation and the concentrations of outdoor ozone and particulate ...
Climate Change | American Lung Association
Climate change is a health emergency. From wildfires and worsened ozone air pollution to extreme storms and flooding, climate change is placing our health at ...
Does global warming cause breathing problems?
Global warming has been associated with an increase in the frequency of ground-level ozone episodes, leading to breathing problems. · Some ...
Climate change and respiratory disease: clinical guidance for ...
Climate change is a major threat to lung patients due to increasing temperatures, more extreme weather, poorer air quality, and altered allergen and microbial ...
Climate change and respiratory health
Zero emission policies should be at the heart of climate change mitigation strategies, as these would bring major co-benefits via reductions in air pollution ...
Air pollution, climate change, and lung health in Europe - The Lancet
Experts have called climate change the biggest global threat to humanity and associated temperature rises are intrinsically linked to air ...
Review The impact of air pollution on respiratory diseases in an era ...
Climate change can also increase the risk of waterborne diseases that impact respiratory health. For instance, Legionnaires' disease, a severe ...
Climate change impacts on respiratory health
Warming temperatures due to climate change have led to more heatwaves and hot extremes. Exposure to extreme heat and tropospheric ozone results ...
Impact of Global Climate Change on Pulmonary Health - ATS Journals
In this review, we focus on the respiratory health impacts of global climate change, with an emphasis on susceptible and vulnerable populations and low- and ...
Climate change poses 'major threat' to respiratory health - Healio
The European Respiratory Society (ERS) called climate change a “major threat” to patients with lung disorders, with extreme weather events and environmental ...
Climate change and respiratory disease
Climate change will affect individuals with pre-existing respiratory disease, but the extent of the effect remains unclear.
Full article: Climate change, air quality, and respiratory health
In conclusion, climate change may play an important role in regulating particle deposition in the lungs by changing physicochemistry of ...
Lung cancer in Asia: the impact of climate change - The Lancet
With Asia already bearing half the global cancer burden, the impact of climate-related events on health and on lung cancer care specifically are profound.
Climate change and respiratory health - European Respiratory Society
Climate change is a major threat to lung patients, causing more frequent and extreme weather events, prolonged aeroallergen seasons, and poorer air quality.
Climate change and lung health: the challenge for a new president
4 Climate change can increase exposure to pollen and mould allergens. Raised temperatures increase concentrations of ground-level ozone and particulates. This ...
Climate change and its impact on lung health: a focus on Europe
12 1.2 How does climate change impact health and respiratory health? 15 1.2.1 Who is at risk and the burden of respiratory disease in Europe. 19 1.3 ...
Climate change - European Lung Foundation
How does climate change affect your lungs? ... People with asthma, rhinosinusitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and respiratory ...