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Human health effects caused by fine particles

Fine particles cause cardiovascular and pulmonar diseases and increase mortality to these diseases. They also contain carcinogenic substances, and they seem to increase lung cancer. However, cardiovascular diseases are more important from public health perspective. In addition, fine particles aggravate symptoms of sensitive people such as asthmatics. A recent report about the health effects of fine particles in the European Union assessed that more than a thousand people per year die prematurely due to fine particles in Finland. [1] Of these slightly less than a half, about 500, is due to Finnish emission sources. The rest is due to long-range transport from abroad. [2]