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"The number of people dying from cardiovascular disease in Europe as a result
of air pollution has fallen sharply as countries have cracked down on harmful
emissions.
The World Heart Federation said that between 2010 and 2019, deaths in the
region from heart disease attributed to pollution fell by 19.2 per cent, and
from strokes by 25.3 per cent. This amounted to 88,880 fewer heart disease
deaths and 34,317 fewer stroke deaths.
Europe also recorded the largest annual decline in PM2.5 — the air pollutant
most closely linked to harmful health effects — of any region of the world
between 2010 and 2019, according to the research, underlining the link with
pollution.
Norway, Portugal and France had the lowest mortality rates from heart disease
when the age structure of the population was taken into account.
Mark Miller of the University of Edinburgh, who chairs the WHF’s Air Pollution
and Climate Change Expert Group, said the European figures were “reassuring”.
“It’s tackling pollution from transport . . . it’s improving urban design, it’s
cutting down emissions from industries, it’s moving away from the use of fossil
fuels in particular — all these things are making a difference,” he said.
Miller cautioned that the statistics were still underestimating the extent of
the cardiovascular consequences of air pollution."
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