A national cohort study (2000–2018) of long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia in older adults in the United States

Liuhua Shi; Kyle Steenland; Haomin Li; Pengfei Liu; Yuhan Zhang; Robert H. Lyles; Weeberb J. Requia; Sindana D. Ilango; Howard H. Chang; Thomas Wingo; Rodney J. Weber; Joel Schwartz

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27049-2

Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

A national cohort study (2000–2018) of long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia in older adults in the United States

Liuhua Shi,
Kyle Steenland,
Haomin Li,
Pengfei Liu,
Yuhan Zhang,
Robert H. Lyles,
Weeberb J. Requia,
Sindana D. Ilango,
Howard H. Chang,
Thomas Wingo,
Rodney J. Weber,
Joel Schwartz

Affiliations

Liuhua Shi: Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Kyle Steenland: Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Haomin Li: Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Pengfei Liu: School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Yuhan Zhang: Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Robert H. Lyles: Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Weeberb J. Requia: School of Public Policy and Government, Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Sindana D. Ilango: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington
Howard H. Chang: Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Thomas Wingo: Department of Neurology and Human Genetics, School of Medicine, Emory University
Rodney J. Weber: School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Joel Schwartz: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27049-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Air pollution has been linked to neurodegenerative disease. Here the authors carried out a population-based cohort study to investigate the association between long-term exposure to PM2.5, NO2, and warm-season O3 on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease incidence in the United States.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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