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- Title
HAVA KİRLİLİĞİ VE COVID-19.
- Authors
FİDAN, Çağlar; AKDUR, Recep
- Abstract
COVID-19 has spread rapidly around the world and has caused socio-economic damage as a major public health problem. Risk factors; when grouped as sociodemographic, medical condition, and environmental exposures; one of the environmental risk factors is air pollution; It is thought that it may play an important role in increasing the sensitivity of the population to the pathogenesis of COVID-19. Measures that restrict human mobility, such as a curfew; considering the decrease in food, entertainment, industry, mining, transportation, and trade activities, it can be predicted that air pollutants may have a reducing effect on their emissions. Studies have shown that increases in the main pollutant parameters used when assessing air quality are a facilitator of transmission, the course, and results of the disease, viral transmission, and an increase in the risk of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. In the examination of the factors used in calculating the R0 coefficient for COVID-19, air pollution; is seen that it has effects on contact rate, transmission route, and the infected period. Some people who also have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease with long-term exposure to a high concentration of particulate matter receive treatment for high blood pressure. The angiotensin-converting enzyme acts as an entry point into cells for some coronaviruses. ACE inhibitors and ARB used to treat high blood pressure have both been shown to increase the amount of ACE2 and therefore may increase the severity of coronavirus infections. Professional societies recommend continuing standard-ACEinhibitor and ARB therapy. Effective public health interventions have been made because the implementation of restrictions generally reduces the amount of activity-related pollutants, and in the process also reduces people's exposure to air pollutants. By health professionals; evidence-based studies should be conducted and shared to prevent air pollution.
- Subjects
AIR pollution prevention; AIR pollution; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors; PARTICULATE matter; COVID-19; PUBLIC health; ACE inhibitors; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; ANGIOTENSIN receptors; ENVIRONMENTAL exposure; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
ESTUDAM Public Health Journal, 2022, Vol 7, Issue 2, p368
- ISSN
2564-6311
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35232/estudamhsd.1039535