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The Role of Global Air Pollution in Aging and Disease

Reading Smoke Signals

  • 1st Edition - January 21, 2018
  • Author: Caleb E. Finch
  • Language: English
  • Hardback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 1 0 2 - 2
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 1 0 3 - 9

Global Air Pollution in Aging: Reading Smoke Signals is a complete reference connecting environmental pollution research to the human aging process. Since 1800, lifespans have more… Read more

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Global Air Pollution in Aging: Reading Smoke Signals is a complete reference connecting environmental pollution research to the human aging process. Since 1800, lifespans have more than doubled as infections declined and medicine improved. But the 20th century introduced a new global scourge of air pollution from fossil fuels with the potential to damage arteries, hearts and lungs that has been related to chronic exposure of air pollution from fossil fuels. Risk areas of study include childhood obesity, brain damage associated with air pollution, increased risk for autism in children and dementia in older adults.

In humans and animals, air pollution stimulates chronic inflammation in different organs, and genetic vulnerability to air pollution is being recognized, particularly for carriers of the Alzheimer risk gene ApoE4.