The Role of Global Air Pollution in Aging and Disease: Reading Smoke Signals

by Caleb E. Finch

Global Air Pollution in Aging: Reading Smoke Signals is a complete reference connecting environmental pollution research to the human aging process. Since 1800, lifespans have more than doubled as infections declined and medicine improved. But the 20th century introduced a new global scourge of air pollution from fossil fuels with the potential to damage arteries, hearts and lungs that has been related to chronic exposure of air pollution from fossil...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0128131020
• ISBN13: 9780128131022
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"