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   AUGUST 19, 2015    
      
   Study: Pollution may be behind rise, earlier onset of dementia    
      
   According to the study, 'environmental factors must play a major part, not   
   just aging'    
      
   HEALTH DISEASES UNITED STATES STUDIES ALZHEIMER'S POLLUTION DEMENTIA ELDERLY    
   BY ELISA LALA    
   PhillyVoice Staff    
   Air pollution may literally be making our memories cloudier.      
      
   A recent longitudinal study published in Surgical Neurology International   
   suggests heightened levels of pollution and insecticides in the environment   
   may be causing people to develop neurological conditions like dementia and   
   Alzheimer's disease, both    
   earlier in life and at a higher rate than ever before.    
      
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   According to the study, which looked at patients in 21 countries between 1989   
   and 2010, American men over the age of 75 are now three times more likely, and   
   women five times more likely, to die from neurological diseases than they were   
   20 years ago.    
      
   Additionally, people in their late 40s and early 50s are now regularly being   
   diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, "something unthinkable twenty years ago,"   
   accoording to Bournemouth University professor and lead study author Colin   
   Pritchard.    
      
   The researchers also found that for the first time since records began, more   
   elderly U.S. women died of brain disease than cancer.    
      
   "The rate of increase in such a short time suggests a silent or even a   
   'hidden' epidemic, in which environmental factors must play a major part, not   
   just aging," Pritchard told Science Daily.    
   Read more on the study here.    
      
      
      
      
   ELISA LALA    
   elisa@phillyvoice.com    
      
      
      
      
   http://www.phillyvoice.com/study-pollution-linked-rise-dementia-diagnoses/   
      
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