Scientists at the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability at the University of Leicester have established that air pollution causes more harm than good to your lungs.
It was found that smoke from industries, plants and dust particles attribute to the ageing of lungs and may as well as elevate the risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
The report discovered that the lungs showed an equivalent of two years of ageing after exposure to 5 microorganisms per cubic meter pollution. This negatively interfered with the functions of the lung.
The condition was worse in people living with air containing more than 10 microgames per cubic meter of particle pollution.
On the other hand, cases of people victimized by COPD were awful high than when a person lived with smokers.
This was after a group of 300,000 were tested to determine the actual lung function. Researchers also conducted a test on these people to pinpoint how overexposure to higher levels of air pollution was associated with the changes in how people respired.
Social status is also believed to be the causing factor of the outlined condition as people living in low-income households were more predisposed.
"Air pollution had approximately twice the impact on lung function decline and three times the increased COPD risk on lower-income participants compared to higher-income participants who had the same air pollution exposure," said study author Anna Hansell, a professor of environmental epidemiology in the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability at the University of Leicester on CNN.
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