Living with air pollution in US raises risk of dementia, study finds

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.

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.

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 wildfires, although it could also come from other sources like traffic and coal combustion.

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