Most previous research on the issue has looked largely at particle pollution from fossil fuels. But in the new study, the connection to dementia seemed most robust with pollution connected to agric…
People in areas of the United States with high levels of a certain kind of air pollution have a greater risk of dementia, a new study found., looked at data from 27,857 survey participants between 1998 to 2016. About 15%, or 4,105, developed dementia during the study period, and all lived in areas of the US with higher concentrations of particle pollution than those who didn’t develop dementia, the researchers found.
Particle pollution, also called PM2.5 or particulate matter, is the mix of solid and liquid droplets floating in the air, according to the USParticulate matter can come from coal- and natural gas-fired plants, cars, agriculture, unpaved roads, construction sites and wildfires. “At first, when agriculture and wildfires were the two that popped out, Boya and I were both surprised,” said Dr. Sara Dubowsky Adar,of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, who worked on the study with a team that included Dr. Boya Zhang, a research fellow in the department.
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