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Taking a Stand Against Air Pollution – The Impact on Cardiovascular Disease: A Joint Opinion from the World Heart Federation, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and the European Society of Cardiology Cover

Taking a Stand Against Air Pollution – The Impact on Cardiovascular Disease: A Joint Opinion from the World Heart Federation, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and the European Society of Cardiology

Open Access
|Jan 2021

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Ranking of air pollution relative to other leading risk factors for global mortality. Mortality Risk Factors, Both sexes, all ages, 2019. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. (Adapted from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2020).

Figure 2

Biological pathways linking air pollution with cardiovascular disease. Mechanisms of cardiovascular disease attributable to air pollution exposures. (Adapted from Rajesh Vedanthan and Michael Hadley, 2019).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.948 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 9, 2020
Accepted on: Nov 9, 2020
Published on: Jan 28, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Michael Brauer, Barbara Casadei, Robert A. Harrington, Richard Kovacs, Karen Sliwa, the WHF Air Pollution Expert Group, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License.