Air Pollution Harms Every Part of The Body, Finds A Global Review

An extensive review on air pollution has found that exposure to toxic air may harm every organ of a person’s body.

World Health Organisation estimates that air pollution kills around 8 million people around the globe every year. The ways in which it impacts the health of the world’s population are beyond count.

An extensive report titled ‘Air Pollution and Noncommunicable Diseases’ elaborates on some of these ways and finds that exposure to toxic air affects almost every part of an individual’s body, signalling the need for active intervention.