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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lin, Chia-Ching
• Chiu, Chien-Chih
• Lee, Po-Yen
• Chen, Kuo-Jen
• He, Chen-Xi
• Hsu, Sheng-Kai
• Cheng, Kai-Chun

Titel

The Adverse Effects of Air Pollution on the Eye: A Review

Ist Teil von

• International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022-01, Vol.19 (3), p.1186

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: MDPI AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Air pollution is inevitably the result of human civilization, industrialization, and globalization. It is composed of a mixture of gases and particles at harmful levels. Particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and carbon dioxides (CO ) are mainly generated from vehicle emissions and fuel consumption and are the main materials causing outdoor air pollution. Exposure to polluted outdoor air has been proven to be harmful to human eyes. On the other hand, indoor air pollution from environmental tobacco smoking, heating, cooking, or poor indoor ventilation is also related to several eye diseases, including conjunctivitis, glaucoma, cataracts, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In the past 30 years, no updated review has provided an overview of the impact of air pollution on the eye. We reviewed reports on air pollution and eye diseases in the last three decades in the PubMed database, Medline databases, and Google Scholar and discussed the effect of various outdoor and indoor pollutants on human eyes.