The collateral effects of environmental pollution can be seen not only in the high levels of pollution that leads to lung problems, allergies and vulnerability to respiratory infections but their effects are visualized in people who daily breathe contaminated air.
Experts say that currently the greatest pollution originates from oil and not coal and bacteria that travel through air could also cause diabetes.
A study by American scientists revealed that air quality is related to the increase in blood glucose, and not necessarily genetic predisposition and diet are the only cause.
The disease is also caused by the effects of pollution.
The signs of scholars are based on analyzing the future of 1.7 million US veterans for more than a decade to determine the possibilities of acquiring diabetes.
The information was combined with databases related to global diabetes studies and air quality information.
The findings were shocking because they showed that 14 percent of people with diabetes equivalent to 3.2 million patients per year, which can be awarded to the contamination of cities, in particular the one where micro-particles that are more difficult tofilter.
According to the World Health Organization about 422 million people in the world suffer from type 2 diabetes, more than four times the amount in 1980 (108 million) and more than 20 million cases appear every twelve months.
