Environmental Pollution and Cardiovascular Diseases

Discusses the interlinkage of environmental pollution and
cardiovascular diseases as worldwide problems have increased
drastically over the past three decades
DESCRIPTION
Environmental Pollution and Cardiovascular Diseases helps stakeholders enhance their
knowledge about environmental pollution, weather conditions, climate change, and
impacts on the cardiovascular system. The book further aims to ameliorate the global
burden of cardiovascular deaths attributable to pollution by identifying trends in
pollution-linked cardiovascular disease from the 1990s to present day. Overall, air
pollution is estimated to cause about 34% of ischemic heart disease deaths. As these
figures show no sign of declining, this book is a must-have for researchers,
cardiologists, and others seeking to understand such an important etiological factor
in so many cardiovascular illnesses.
KEY FEATURES
 Opens new avenues for readers to enhance their knowledge about
environmental pollution, weather conditions, climate change, and their
linkage with cardiovascular diseases
 Highlights air pollution conditions of different countries on various
continents, along with the mechanisms that contribute to hypertension,
congenital heart diseases, myocardial infarction, coronary artery diseases,
and pollution-related death
 Provides information about highly polluted countries, those that are less
polluted, and the epidemiological trends of coronary artery diseases