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Exposure to polluted air riskier for women
19/Sep/2006: In what could be termed as new evidence linking mortality rate to pollution levels, a new study brought out by German researchers points to increased deaths among women in cities to pollution. The study has looked at the health of women living within 50 meters of busy roads for a longer period of time and concluded that they face increased risk of dying from heart attack or other cardiopulmonary cause.
The most likely ‘culprit’ for this could be the particulate matter emitted by automobile vehicles, in particular by the diesel vehicles. The tiny particles are released into the air by the diesel vehicles and the advanced research into women’s health has once again pointed out the dangers of exposure to pollution.
The researches looked at the health of 4,800 women in 1980s and 1990s for the long-term impact of pollution on their health. During this period, details pertaining to the amounts of particulate matter and other pollutants released into the air were collected from nearby air monitoring stations. The study pointed out that women living within 50-meter radius of a busy road were 70 percent more likely to die due to cardiopulmonary cause.
Though the residents could do little to overcome this problem as the particulate matter finds its way indoors as well, using traps for diesel vehicles may prove to be a solution
to some extent. The particle traps need to be fitted on new cars as well as old vehicles to stop release of particulate matter into the air by vehicles.
Chandra Sekhar
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