by Matteo Cavallito<\/p>\n
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Chemical pollution of soil, water, air and food is \u2018a major environmental threat, leading to an estimated 9 million premature deaths<\/strong> worldwide\u2019. This is according to research from the University of Mainz<\/strong>, Germany, which also involved researchers from other countries. The study<\/a>, published in the journal Nature Reviews Cardiology, first of all calls into question the estimates of the Global Burden of Disease<\/a>, one of the largest research programmes on a global scale, according to which pollution would produce 5.5 million deaths<\/strong> from cardiovascular diseases in 2019. The authors also paint a picture of the problem by emphasising the role of certain contaminants in particular, anthropogenic events and disease triggering mechanisms.<\/p>\n