{"id":6724,"date":"2024-07-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6724"},"modified":"2024-08-11T23:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T03:22:34","slug":"wildfire-smoke-may-increase-the-risk-of-dementia-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/wildfire-smoke-may-increase-the-risk-of-dementia-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke may increase the risk of dementia, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new US study has found that wildfire smoke may be worse for brain health than other types of air pollution and even increase the risk of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, reported on Monday at the Alzheimer\u2019s Association International Conference in Philadelphia, come as millions spent the weekend under air quality warnings from wildfires spewing smoke across the western US, including a huge wildfire in California that has grown to more than 360,000&nbsp;acres.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is fine particulate matter or PM&nbsp;2.5 \u2013 tiny particles about 30&nbsp;times smaller than the diameter of a human hair that can be inhaled deep into the lungs and move to the bloodstream. This pollution \u2013 from traffic, factories and fires \u2013 can cause or worsen heart and lung diseases, and the new study adds to evidence it may play some role in dementia, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new US study has found that wildfire smoke may be worse for brain health than other types of air pollution and even increase the risk of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, reported on Monday at the Alzheimer\u2019s Association International Conference in Philadelphia, come as millions spent the weekend under air quality warnings from wildfires spewing smoke across the western US, including a huge wildfire in California that has grown to more than 360,000&nbsp;acres.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is fine particulate matter or PM&nbsp;2.5 \u2013 tiny particles about 30&nbsp;times smaller than the diameter of a human hair that can be inhaled deep into the lungs and move to the bloodstream. This pollution \u2013 from traffic, factories and fires \u2013 can cause or worsen heart and lung diseases, and the new study adds to evidence it may play some role in dementia, too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/wildfire-smoke-may-increase-the-risk-of-dementia-study-finds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wildfire smoke may increase the risk of dementia, study finds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[167,162,72,125,126,46,38,166,1129,212,206,8,51,207,165],"class_list":["post-6724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-pollution","tag-california","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-crisis","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-dementia","tag-fine-particulate-matter","tag-forest-fires","tag-lung-disease","tag-pm2-5","tag-research","tag-united-states","tag-wildfire-smoke","tag-wildfires","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6726,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}