Article By: David Danelski
Date: March 17th 2012
http://www.pe.com/local-news/topics/topics-environment-headlines/20120317-air-pollution-smog-elevates-stroke-risk.ece
Summary: This article talk about how pollution or smog is causing a higher risk of having a stroke. A stroke is cuased when a blood vessel in the brain is ruptured or clogged, then the brain is deprived of oxygen which will eventually kill you. Research has showed that long term exposure to fine particles in the air and smog is the cause of the dangerous build up of plaque in the arteries. About 130,000 people die each year of stroke which is the 4th largest cause of death in the US and pollution and bad air quality has alot to do with this. Also 800,000 have strokes but most of them live.
Opinion/ Reflecton- I thought that this was an interesting article and I found out how strokes are cuased. It makes sense that the fine particles in the polluted air build up in your arteries and blood vessels then your brain can not get oxygen and you get a stroke. Im also suprised by the number of strokes people have per year, it is almost up to 1 million! A temperature inversion would be a nightmare trapping all the smog in one spot.
Questions
1.) How badly do you think the air pollution is afffecting the amount of strokes per year?
2.) What could be done to prevent having so much air pollution?
3.) Did you ever even think that air pollution could end up kiling somebody?
4.) Do you think air pollution can get so bad that it ends up killing the whole human race?
or do you think we can find a solution to all this?
Picture- This is a piicture of smog and this is what is causing the strokes and you can see how bad it looks. Theses particles build up in the atreries and end up getting clogged. Imagine breathing this air in. You can bareley see 10 yards in front of you!
1.) How badly do you think the air pollution is affecting the amount of strokes per year? I think that the pollution does have something to do with the amount of strokes. Due to the fact that these people are in contact with extremely high levels of pollution, it probably gets into their bodies. If enough builds up I think that it could definitely lead to stroke.
ReplyDelete2.) What could be done to prevent having so much air pollution? The factories could work on creating less pollution or the people could be more cautious about their health. It make take a while for companies to greatly reduce the pollution, but doing something simple like wearing a mask could make a big difference.
3.) Did you ever even think that air pollution could end up killing somebody? I did not think that it could kill somebody just by breathing it in over time. I thought it had to be more direct like pollution in food or water.
4.) Do you think air pollution can get so bad that it ends up killing the whole human race,
or do you think we can find a solution to all this? I don't think that it could ever kill the entire human race because with the air currents and weather patterns, it is normally pretty spread out. Even though it is not a problem right now we should think about that for the future.