Authors: Ji Q, Hou Y.
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1670520
Abstract Summary
Environmental pollutants—fine particles, traffic gases, noise, temperature swings, and heavy metals—are emerging as key but overlooked triggers of intracerebral haemorrhage in older adults. These exposures, shaped by social inequities, damage blood vessels through stress, poor sleep, and inactivity, lowering the threshold for brain bleeding. The review calls for integrated policies—cleaner transport, noise control, green spaces—to reduce this preventable stroke burden.
Why Brain? 🧠
Environmental pollutants like air particles, noise, and heavy metals increase brain hemorrhage risk in older adults through stress, poor sleep, and blood vessel damage, with disadvantaged communities most affected.
License: CC BY.
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