Air pollution, which is considered one of the major problems today, may be caused by the increase in motor vehicles, incorrect location of production facilities, inadequate inspection of these production facilities, and the use of cosmetic products that are harmful to nature.
Medicana Avcılar Hospital Internal Medicine Specialist, Specialist. Dr. Adnan Özdolap gave information about the harms of air pollution on human health.
What is Air Pollution?
Dr. Adnan Özdolap,'' Air pollution; It is the increase of foreign and harmful substances in the air to levels higher than they should normally be. These high levels of impurities can remain in the air for a long time. Therefore, it negatively affects the health of living things. Air pollution can also indirectly damage the ecological balance due to its effects on living health. As everyone knows, air pollution negatively affects people's health in many ways. "These effects may vary depending on the duration of exposure to polluted air, the way polluted air enters the body, the concentration of harmful substances in polluted air, and whether the person exposed to polluted air has any chronic disease," he said. p>
What are the effects caused by air pollution?
Dr. Özdolap said, ''First of all, there is deterioration in people's respiratory functions, an increase in the likelihood of respiratory diseases that can cause serious problems such as asthma and COPD, an aggravation of these diseases in people with chronic respiratory diseases without being exposed to air pollution, and an increase in the risk of these diseases in people with chronic heart disease. As these disorders become more serious, the risk of cancer increases, and people's health deteriorates, there may be an increase in premature death. '' said. These effects are only the negative effects caused by air pollution, but air pollution also has many negative effects on drinking and used water, on vegetation, and on the vegetables and fruits that return to the tables in agricultural areas as food. As a result, air pollution "Infants, developing children, pregnant or breastfeeding women and the elderly are some of the risk groups in case of air pollution," he said.
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