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- * Both outdoor and indoor air pollution have been linked to various eye diseases, with outdoor pollution harming eyes directly and indoor pollution, mainly from smoking and poor ventilation, associated with conditions like conjunctivitis and glaucoma.
- * A recent review addresses the lack of updated studies over the past 30 years on the effects of air pollution on eye health, analyzing research from multiple databases to explore how different pollutants impact human vision.
Article Abstract
Air pollution is inevitably the result of human civilization, industrialization, and globalization. It is composed of a mixture of gases and particles at harmful levels. Particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and carbon dioxides (CO) are mainly generated from vehicle emissions and fuel consumption and are the main materials causing outdoor air pollution. Exposure to polluted outdoor air has been proven to be harmful to human eyes. On the other hand, indoor air pollution from environmental tobacco smoking, heating, cooking, or poor indoor ventilation is also related to several eye diseases, including conjunctivitis, glaucoma, cataracts, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In the past 30 years, no updated review has provided an overview of the impact of air pollution on the eye. We reviewed reports on air pollution and eye diseases in the last three decades in the PubMed database, Medline databases, and Google Scholar and discussed the effect of various outdoor and indoor pollutants on human eyes.
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