Exposure to the tiny pollutants emitted by wildfires may be increasing the older adult population’s odds of dementia diagnosis, a new study has found. Among more than 1.2 million people tracked over a decade in Southern California, each microgram-per-cubic-meter rise in wildfire-borne particulate matter (PM 2.5) exposure was associated with an 18 percent increase in the odds of dementia diagnosis. Prior research has already suggested that long-term exposure to PM 2.5 — fine particles present in the emissions of fossil fuel combustion — is associated with incident dementia: the first visit in which a patient receives a clinical diagnosis of this condition. But the study authors s
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