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Climate Change: Air pollution is spoiling our kidneys!

AIMAN INAM

CHICAGO: Climate change leads to excessive and corrosive pollution across the globe. Innumerable scientists have been conducting research regarding its potential impacts on humans.

As a result, a latest research has come up with another concern: exposure to air pollution is damaging kidneys!

As a matter of fact, even a modest quantity of this menace in the milieu could affect kidneys and trigger *Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).

Elaborating further, the study author Ziyad Al-Aly from the VA Saint Louis Health Care System in Missouri maintained that their ramifications revealed a momentous link amid exposure to PM2.5 and odds of developing CKD, eGFR decline, and ESRD.

How it Impacts?

When human breathe, petite particles of dirty air go through lungs and penetrate in the bloodstream. Those eventually reach kidneys, which are considered body’s major filters. 

Kidneys are supposed to sieve these particles out of the blood but extreme exposures to hazardous pollutants diminish their effectiveness.

For this inclusive research, academics have gone through the records of 2,482,737 participants from the States for around 8.5 annum.

Air pollution levels have been analyzed using space-borne sensors from NASA satellites.

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) has run their up shots.

*CKD reduces Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR), the rate of blood surge via the kidneys and leads to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), the final phase of CKD.

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.