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Bucharest pollution – conclusions of Public Health Institute report
The study made by the Public Health Institute over 2010-2017 showed that there is an association between growing pollution with PM 10 and PM2.5 (dust) and the growing number of serious diseases affected people of Bucharest : acute myocardial infarction, acute infections of superior respiratory ways, cerebral vascular accident, chronic obstructive bronco-pneumonia. The document shoes that if pollution would have dropped to the level assumed in 2010, Bucharesters would have a life expectancy longer by 4 years.
Study conclusions about how pollution in Bucharest affects the people's health are the following:
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There was a significantly statistic association between the level of suspension powders in the air and total incidence.
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There was an association with statistic significance between the level of suspension powders in the area -PM 10 and the incidence of acute myocardial infraction.
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There was a net association with statistic significance between the level of suspension powders in the air -PM 10 and the incidence by acute respiratory infections of higher respiratory ways.
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There was an obvious relation between BPOC deaths and the use of new vehicles – a diverging relation.
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There was an association between mortality by cerebral vascular accident and the exposition of PM10 in the air.
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Study results show the fact that the relation statistically proved between pollution with PM10 and the appearance of acute myocardial infraction and mortality by cerebral vascular accident are according to WHO presentations.
“The influence of air pollution with irritating pollutants can induce driving unrest and cardiac re-polarization with the induction of rate disturbances. It can also induce lung and systemic inflammation, with the increase blood thickness”, the cited document says.
Where does dust pollution come from and where is highest pollution in Bucharest
“The main contributions to total emission of PM2.5 in air come from residential heating (45.8%) and road traffic (45.5%), the contribution of sources in the industrial and service sector is 8.5%. For the total PM 10 emission in the air, the main contribution is that of road traffic (48.4%), followed by residential heating (39.2%); inventoried sources in the industrial sector and services bring a contribution of 11.7%,” the document shows.
Other polluting sectors are agriculture, energy, waste burning and constructions (building sites).
The study shows that the center of Bucharest is more polluted.