Can early deaths be prevented when air pollution is considered?
Research results from The European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE) concluded that even when air pollution levels are within the European set limits there can still be a huge impact on health.
Air pollution measurements and clinical data from 30 cohort studies including pregnancy outcomes, rates of heart disease, cancers, asthma and allergies, specific disease biomarkers, causes of death and death rates were used to establish this finding.
ESCAPE is funded by The European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme.
Click below to see how the study was undertaken and discover more detailed results:
- The impact of air pollution on health | Understanding patient data
- ESCAPE Project: long-term effects on human health of exposure to air pollution in Europe
- Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and traffic noise and incident hypertension in seven cohorts of the European study of cohorts for air pollution effects (ESCAPE) | European Heart Journal | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
- Long-term health effects of air pollution: results of the European project ESCAPE | PubMed
- ESCAPE project: Publications