Air Pollution and Brain Attack
- M.A.Aleem Neurologist ABC Hospital Trichy Tamilnadu India
Brain attack (stroke ) is the second most common cause of death and a leading cause of disability. Stroke has a yearly global incidence of over 15 million patients and is responsible for over 116 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), of which an estimated 16·9% can be attributed to air pollution.
Increasing evidence suggests that air pollution is an emerging risk factor for stroke. Over the past decades, air pollution levels have continuously increased and are now estimated to be responsible for 14% of all stroke-associated deaths.
There is a clear association between air pollution and the different causes of ischaemic stroke and haemorrhagic stroke. The risk for ischaemic stroke is increased after short-term or long-term exposure to air pollution. This effect is most pronounced in people with cardiovascular burden and stroke due to large artery disease or small vessel disease. Short-term exposure to air pollution increases the risk of of intracerebral haemorrhage, a subtype of haemorrhagic stroke.
The incidence of air pollution-related stroke is most pronounced in low-income and middle-income countries due to their fast-growing economies, urbanisation, and industrialisation.
In Our city, monitoring of the
air quality has revealed that the air quality index (AQI) has worsened from satisfactory to moderate level due to air pollution.
Our corporation is doing many mitigation work to prevent air pollution in the city by creating more parks , by planting trees and by Increasing the city green spaces.
People should also cooperate to prevent air pollution in the city. They should not burn the garbage in open places. City People should do home garden terse garden and indoor plantations to mitigate air pollution .
In this world stroke day 2022 October 29th People should in some way or other help to prevent air pollution in the city for a healthy Brain
- M.A.Aleem
Tiruchi
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