[Environmental pollution and short-term effects on human health in industrialized urban areas].
Several studies investigating the adverse short-term effects of air pollution indicate that even concentrations of air pollutants close to or lower than air quality standards could negatively affect respiratory and cardiovascular health. Therefore, it seems crucial to develop knowledge about health adverse effects in industrialized urban areas. A time-series study on the association between air pollution levels and daily mortality and hospital admissions for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases is currently carried out in the town of Taranto, "area at high environmental risk" according to WHO because of the presence of several heavy industries and elevated rates for all-causes and all cancer mortality, higher than regional mortality rates, especially for lung cancer.
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Uomo e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pisa.
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D004787:Environmental Pollution; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D013997:Time Factors; D014504:Urban Health