Washington: A new study has found that air pollution increases the risk of heart and lung diseases as well as breast cancer.
Researchers from the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) discovered that the greatest increase in breast cancer incidence was seen in women whose homes The level of pollution particles was high near
Pollution includes vehicle exhaust, burning oil or coal, wood smoke, burning vegetation, and industrial emissions that produce particles so small that they can be inhaled deep into the lungs.
For the study, researchers used data from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study, which included more than 500,000 men and women between 1995 and 1996 from California, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North He was from Carolina, Louisiana, Atlanta and Detroit.
“We saw an 8 percent increase in breast cancer cases among women in areas with air pollution levels greater than 2.5,” said study author Alexandra White, head of the Environment and Cancer Epidemiology Group at NIEHS. So these results prove that air pollution can cause breast cancer.
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