A new study published by the medical journal “The Lancet” finds evidence that air pollution is linked to dementia. People who live near a major road are up to 12 percent more likely to develop dementia than those who live further away. The risk of dementia increases the closer and the longer residents lived to a major road. People living within 50 meters of a major road are between 7 and 12 percent more likely to develop dementia depending on how long they lived there in an urban or rural area. Up to a distance of 200 meters away from a major road, people are not more at risk than those living further away.
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