Although stroke is preventable, it causes 7m deaths each year
Although stroke is very preventable and treatable, latest figures estimate there are 12 million cases and more than seven million deaths from stroke each year.
A stroke is a serious life-threatening medical condition that happens when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off. “Given that ambient air pollution is reciprocally linked with ambient temperature and climate change, the importance of urgent climate actions and measures to reduce air pollution cannot be overestimated.
The condition is preventable, but the research suggests 84 per cent of strokes in 2021 were linked to 23 risk factors that can be addressed. For the first time, the study reveals the contribution of particulate matter air pollution to a fatal brain bleed.
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