Living with air pollution raises risk of dementia, US study finds
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.
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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.
A study revealed that dementia patients lived in areas with higher particle pollution.
About 15% of the study's participants developed dementia, and its authors say the link was most robust in areas with pollution from wildfires and agriculture.
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 agriculture and wildfire.
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