Outdoor air pollution from industrial chemicals causing new onset of asthma or COPD: a systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Until today, industrial sources contribute to the multifaceted contamination of environmental air. Exposure to air pollutants has the potential to initiate and promote asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). At global scale, both entities cause the majority of about 4 million annual deaths by respiratory disease. However, we identified industrial contamination as a subgroup of air pollution that may be associated with this burden and is underinvestigated in research. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate associations between substances industrially released into environmental air and the occurrence of asthma and COPD in the human population. Here we present the protocol for our systematic review of the current evidence.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Lux H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7768640 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature