Two studies from Carnegie Mellon University in collaboration with other universities, were published recently in Environmental Health Perspectives and PLOS. The studies looked at excess deaths due to particulate air pollution in the entire United States. The studies found that particulate air pollution causes thousands of deaths each year, and that it particularly increases deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory causes, and cancer. It increases deaths from all cancers, not just lung cancer. (Fine and especially ultrafine particulates can cross from the lungs into the body and can then be carried anywhere in the body, which explains how air pollution can cause more kinds of cancer than just lung cancer.)
To read a summary of the articles, please read this article: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-30k-air-pollution-current-standard.html
To read the scientific articles, please see these links:
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp4438
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002856#pmed-1002856-g003
08/07/2019
