Persons suffering from headache might have a reason to go green living. A recent study from Chile shows that elevated levels of pollution in the air can contribute to headache.
Researchers in Santiago province, Chile studied the effects of various pollution factors including ozone, carbon monoxide, air pollutants and particulate matter associated with gasoline and other fossil fuels, burning on all types of headache. This province in Chile is one of the best places to research this one because of the high population density and its location in a Valley surrounded by mountains, which makes it extremely sensitive to pollution.
Although the authors of the study recommended further studies be performed in different geographic regions to test for consistency in Chile she found that on days of high risk of pollution, headaches severe enough to require hospitalization rose substantially. More specifically, migraine headache most consistently was the kind connected with individual air pollutants, while ozone the most consistently associated with headache in single-pollutant models pollutant was.
"If this Association proves to be causal, the morbidity of headache should be taken during the treasures of the disease burden and the economic costs of air pollution," wrote the authors of the study in September 2009 issue of the American Journal of epidemiology. Based on their findings, they suggest that headache patients stay indoors on days of high pollution.
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