Growing evidence suggesting a link between air pollution and diabetes has not been quantified until now. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis collaborated with those at the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Healthcare System to study the effects of air pollutants. Their aim was to discover if a link between high pollution levels and diabetes existed.
Results from this study were shocking. Not only did scientists find that a there is, in fact, a relationship between air pollution and the global issue of diabetes, these findings also cite pollution levels deemed safe are also at fault. What’s more, such a determination suggests that by decreasing air pollution, humankind could potentially see a drop in diabetes cases; especially in locations with extremely higher levels of pollution, such as India, says Medical Express.
Ziyad Al-Aly, an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University, served as the study’s senior author. The researchers’ discovery was published in The Lancet Planetary Health on June 29, 2018.
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