According To Studies, Air Pollution May Be At Fault For Thousands Of Dementia Cases Each Year
Researchers believe that air pollution may be to blame for over 188,000 occurrences of dementia each year in the United States, with wildfires and agricultural activities having the largest effects on a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia later in life. The new figures, which were released on Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open, are the most recent to highlight the variety of health concerns that air pollution, as experts have long warned, is a major contributor to. The current study provides a more detailed look at how some types of air pollution seem to be more strongly associated to dementia than others, despite the fact that studies have already connected poor air quality generally to a range of health issues, including the risk of acquiring dementia. Based on a study of information gathered from a decades-long survey supported by the National Institutes of Health, which followed up with thousands of older persons across the nation...