What is it about?
click to tweet Further evidence that new onset asthma can occur from air pollution, even below prevailing air quality standards. It is time the ERS and ATS release a formal statement on the evidence for the link between long-term air pollution and new incident asthma. https://bit.ly/30uAjNN
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Why is it important?
Today, regulatory cost–benefit process usually ignores any benefits of air pollution mitigation on reduced incidence of new disease, including asthma. Compared to the human health cost of acutely exacerbating a pre-existing lung or heart disease due to air pollution exposure, the long-term financial valuation of a new onset disease, such as asthma from air pollution, is much greater from a public health standpoint, because initiation of chronic disease entails many years of diminished capacity, medical treatments, and lowered productivity.
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Recognizing and including the new onset asthma effects of air pollution in regulatory decision-making would justify greater action to clean the air we breathe.
George Thurston
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This page is a summary of: Evidence of air pollution exposure and new asthma onset: further justification for cleaner air, European Respiratory Journal, June 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS),
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00064-2021.
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