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Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

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275 points rntn | 3 comments | 07 Sep 25 13:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.037s | source
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firesteelrain ◴[07 Sep 25 14:49 UTC] No.45158651[source]▶
Dementia rates in Miami Dade are among the highest in the country while Utah is on the low end. What is striking is that Utah has worse air quality, which is a known risk factor, yet still shows lower prevalence.

Why is that?

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maldonad0 ◴[07 Sep 25 15:45 UTC] No.45159195[source]▶
Life is psychologically worse in the cities.
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1. t-writescode ◴[07 Sep 25 17:26 UTC] No.45160224[source]▶
My sorrow and sadness from being in a place where I can't walk to go do things is substantially worse than places where I can.

I can walk in cities.

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3. ninalanyon ◴[08 Sep 25 07:42 UTC] No.45165584[source]▶
Why can't you walk outside of cities? At least where I live and mostly travel, northern Europe, walking outside of cities is easy.