Cardiovascular Diseases

One of the top five risks for human health includes poor air quality, while the others are blood pressure, smoking tobacco, diabetes, and obesity. The poor air quality has contributed to around 8% of deaths around the world, according to a 2015 statistic and long-term exposure has created health hazard risks such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respiratory infections, heart attack, lung cancer and stroke. The air pollution has led every individual to be party to so-called “passive outdoor smoking”. Pollutants such as NOx, O3 and particulates have to be controlled in cities and other industrial regions and the percentage of PM2.5 has increased, which is a part...