{"id":129367,"date":"2024-04-02T08:52:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T05:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/po-valley-air-pollution-is-causing-serious-health-risks-for-more-than-16-million-italians\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T08:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T05:52:43","slug":"po-valley-air-pollution-is-causing-serious-health-risks-for-more-than-16-million-italians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/po-valley-air-pollution-is-causing-serious-health-risks-for-more-than-16-million-italians\/","title":{"rendered":"Po Valley: Air pollution is causing serious health risks for more than 16 million Italians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129367\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nItaly\u2019s industrial heartland has a long way to go to reach the EU\u2019s goal of zero air pollution. Sitting at her kitchen table in Modena in Italy\u2019s Emilia Romagna province, Valentina goes through the medical history of her and her husband\u2019s family. Cancer has been common on both sides, with Valentina (54) beating breast cancer several years ago and her husband Andrea (55) in recent remission for bone marrow cancer. \u201cIt would be probable that this situation is exacerbated by the pollution,\u201d Valentina tells Euronews Green.<\/p>\n<p>The Po Valley where the couple live is one of the most polluted places in Europe in terms of air quality. Major cities such as Milan in Lombardy and Turin in Piedmont suffer heavy pollutants from traffic and indoor heating from wood burning, as well as industries like farming, engineering and ceramics. \u201cOur family is touched by this situation. Probably if we lived in another county without this industrial distribution, it might be different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nitrous dioxide, ozone and inhalable particulate matter (PM) &#8211; especially PM10 and PM2.5 &#8211; are among the most harmful products in the atmosphere. They are causing serious health risks to the more than 16 million Italians living in the Po Valley. According to datasets released by the European Environment Agency (EEA), Italy had 11,282 premature deaths due to nitrogen dioxide exposure in 2021, the highest in Europe. Cancer is also the second leading cause of death in the country, with lung cancer accounting for the highest number of deaths for men and women.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the north is economically richer, better in diet, has fewer smokers and less overweight people than the country\u2019s south, the Po region shows a higher mortality rate for cancer, a report from the University of Bologna highlighted. \u201cAll the studies state in a clear unequivocal way that there is a direct connection between living in a highly polluted area and high risks of health degeneration,\u201d says Professor Signorelli, president of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER).<\/p>\n<p>Urban centres are particularly at risk, with the city of Cremona in the Lombardy region having the fourth highest concentration of PM2.5 in Europe according to the EEA. Cities such as Verona, Padova and Vicenza also showed an increase in PM2.5 between 2018 and 2022, a report by the European Data Journalism Network found. The geography that allowed Italy to industrialise its north is the same that has caused the degradation in its air quality. Its plainlands provide 35 per cent of the country\u2019s agricultural production, and are home to factories producing roof tiles and bricks.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by the Alps to its north and the Apennine Mountain range to its south, atmospheric pollutants get trapped in the valley. An unhealthy concentration builds up in its densely populated cities. \u201cThe Po Valley is characterised by high levels of urbanisation with meteorological conditions that are generally unfavourable to the pollutants\u2019 dispersion,\u201d explains Secondo Barbero, general director of Regional Agency for Environmental Protection (ARPA) of Piedmont.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/03\/30\/po-valley-air-pollution-is-causing-serious-health-risks-for-more-than-16-million-italians\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/03\/30\/po-valley-air-pollution-is-causing-serious-health-risks-for-more-than-16-million-italians\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/po-valley-air-pollution-is-causing-serious-health-risks-for-more-than-16-million-italians\/\">Po Valley: Air pollution is causing serious health risks for more than 16 million Italians<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[536,575,6498,13983],"class_list":["post-129367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-pollution","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-health-risk","tag-po-valley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}