Professor Robin Condliffe

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What's Up Docs? · How can we look after our amazing lungs? · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

And their lung function got worse, and inflammation went up.

They got the same people and carried on and walked down Hyde Park.

and very markedly less effect of a two-mile walk along Hyde Park than down Oxford Street.

So people with asthma, significantly impaired by lung pollution.

And these effects are acute, are they?

They're happening at the time you're on Oxford Street.

Exactly.

And it takes us, and I think you touched on this earlier, in terms of

the sort of socio-economic impact of pollution and who gets it and who gets other issues, damp in the house, who has higher incidences of smoking or vaping.

There's clearly a big correlation.

If you live in your lovely house in the country or on Regent's Park, breathing fresh air, if you're in a little small flat with damp,

Next to a main road, you're getting diesel fumes, you've got mold.

And so there's a big link between your socioeconomic class, your wealth, and your respiratory disease.

So in ex-industrial cities in the north, we have much higher prevalences of COPD, lung cancer, than certain leafy areas in the south.

Very much so.

I mean, in terms of developing the lung condition.

And you look at lung function.

You've got to go all the way back.

to when you were inside your mum's tummy, because our lungs start developing in the womb, and then they keep developing during childhood.

So if you were born to a mother who was from a lower socioeconomic class, had poorer nutrition, maybe had more likelihood of smoking, and then you were in a cramped house with increased risk of infection, increased damp, secondhand smoking, then by the time you get to 18, your lungs may be

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