Posted on 08/15/2023 6:42:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Nearly 188,000 dementia cases in the U.S. each year may have been caused by air pollution, researchers estimate, with bad air quality from wildfires and agriculture showing the strongest links to a person's risk of Alzheimer's disease and other kinds of dementia later in life.
Published Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open, the new estimates are the latest to underscore the range of health risks scientists have long warned are being driven by air pollution.
"The environmental community has been working very hard for the past 10 to 15 years to be able to predict exposures," said Sara Adar, associate chair of epidemiology at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health.
Those drew on a range of data, including measurements from the Environmental Protection Agency and details about nearby factors that could affect their air quality.
"They model all sources at once. Coal-fired power plants, agriculture, wildfires, traffic, all these different emission sources, and then they turn off the source in the model one at a time. And then they can see the difference in what levels are there with the emissions sources, and what are there without them," said Adar.
Their modeling had found the higher risk even after adjusting for a range of potential factors that could have led to muddled results, like sex, race and ethnicity, educational status and wealth.
"Farms will release a lot of ammonia gas, and then in the air with the sunlight and other pollutants out there, they'll react to make particles, and those particles are what we see are likely toxins for the brain," said Adar.
"Unlike many other common risk factors for dementia (eg, hypertension, stroke, and diabetes), exposures to air pollution can be modified at the population level, making it a prime target for large-scale prevention efforts," ...
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More junk science.
Explains all the Democrats.
Guessing they never ventured into the LA basin in the 60’s and 70’s. Or, maybe that’s why there seems to be an abundance of demented folks from there...... 🤔😁👍
From EV fires
That and all the smug emitted by EV drivers.
Yep. Sound definitive, alright...
More computer models. Computer models give what the people building the models want to get.
That’s crazy.
You know, you may have a . . . hey wait a minute.
I grew up in Cleveland Ohio in the 1950s downwind of three steel mills and the Standard Oil refinery.
Somebody should study my contemporaries and see if we have any higher incidence of dementia.
If high pollution areas cause dementia, then why doesn’t everyone who lives in those areas get dementia?
No, it makes perfect sense. Polluted air causes problems. So now the Democrats can pass a law that requires the EPA to get rid of—AIR!
The pollution has definitely affected the researchers and the publicists brains. I would guess that patient specific diseases have a million times greater effect than “air pollution” on late life cognition.
but nothing, I mean nothing, to do with a certain “vaccine”.
“May”
Cause it doesn’t cause dementia. Unless inhaling gases directly from the exhaust of a combustion process or volcano. These researchers must own stock in electrical product industries.
If this were true you would see ten times the cases in places like Chinese cities and Nigerian cities. But you don’t. So I am guessing this is junk. And there is some other reason why the dementia cases show up in America disproportionately. I expect it is diet related.
But also consider the smokers. Were the smokers more prone to dementia? I don’t remember a clear link. I could see anywhere there was a larger amount of mercury or lead in the air. But neither stay in the air very long.
...or not
Monkeys may fly out of my butt.....or not.
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