Early results of a study being carried out by the Taiwan government show a connection with PM2.5 pollutants and lung and liver disease
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/12/28
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Preliminary findings by a group of Taiwanese government
Man wears a surgical mask on a polluted day in Kaohsiung. (By Central News Agency)
agencies on the effects of excessive PM2.5 (particles suspended in the air less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter) humans include lung disease and liver cancer, while in terms of areas, and central and southern Taiwan are in the most urgent need of air pollution control, reported Apple Daily.
Starting in 2015, Taiwan’s National Health Research Institute (NHRI), Health Promotion Administration (HPA), and the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) and been collaborating a study measuring the long-term health impacts of air pollution on Taiwanese citizens.
As this year’s research draws to a close and as results are to be released in January of 2018, a correlation has been found with exposure to PM2.5 and respiratory disease in children and the elderly, as well as liver cancer. The study has also found that central and southern Taiwan are in the most urgent need of air pollution reduction efforts.
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