Pharmaceutical Review ( Associate Editor) According to new studies, the risk of stroke might rise by as much as 30% within five days of exposure to air pollution. Within five days of a stroke, researchers examined 110 observational studies from around the globe that tracked when strokes occurred and the levels of common contaminants in the air. The most frequent type of stroke, an ischemic stroke, which is brought on by a blood clot going to the brain, was represented in the meta-analysis by more than 18 million cases, according to NBC. Inhaling small pieces of particulate matter irritates and inflames the lungs. According to Michael Kleinman of the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine, who was not involved in the study, this causes your immune system to go into overdrive and eventually has an impact on the cardiovascular system.
He asserted that “there is a direct connection between what happens in the lung and what happens in the heart.”