The impact of air pollution on the development of rheumatic heart disease

Abstract

The environmental factors associated with anthropogenic air pollution play an important role in the development, epidemiology and severity of clinical manifestations of rheumatic heart disease. The indicators of ammonia is more than 220 μg/m3 in the atmosphere and phenol is more than 15 μg/m3 (>M+SD in the regions where patients live) are risk factors for the development of rheumatic heart disease with certain clinical features of the course.