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A link between air pollution and Alzheimer’s disease
- st3v3r 10y agoMaybe this is a good thing. After Trump's EPA guts clean air regulations, we'll all develop Alzheimer's, and we can forget that he was ever elected.
- origami777 10y agoThinking he has early onset. From my medical opinion. Would explain how he can contradict himself in the same interview. All those years in NYC taking their toll.
- euyyn 10y ago> From my medical opinion. Would explain how he can contradict himself in the same interview. The obvious and simpler explanation for that isn't Alzheimer's, it's shamelessness.
- aantix 10y agoIt's strange, but I've had this exact conversation with my wife earlier in the year.
- gukov 10y agoWhat was your medical opinion when one of the candidates collapsed on 9/11/16?
- origami777 10y agoOfficially? My medical opinion is that she collapsed.
- HillaryBriss 10y agothe Trumpmind is always looking for what sounds virtuous and popular. but that varies depending on the audience. and audiences change from hour to hour. so he's constantly contradicting himself based on his most recent audience. one hour he's talking to some heavyweights from the energy industry. the next it's some heavyweights from the war industry. then it's some heavyweights in the legal profession. then it's an expert in terrorism. and their opinions all differ somewhat. Trumpmind soaks it all in and regurgitates it. he's an actor -- always eager to please the audience with an outrageous performance. Sylvester Stallone should cast him in one his righteous ass-kicking mercenary movies. then Trump could go on screen and terminate Arnold. the ratings would be sky high!!!
- gukov 10y agoTrump opponents really do want him and the country to fail just so that they can say "I told you so."
- krapp 10y agoNo, we want him to fail because if he succeeds, from our point of view, the country fails.
- jmaloney10 10y agolatimes won't let you read the article with an adblocker enabled
- jobu 10y agoAnd if you disable adblock the page becomes almost unreadable. Here's a site which appears to have basically the same info without the bullshit - https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/air-pollution-raise-dementia-risk/ https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/air-pollution-raise-dementi...
- stuckagain 10y agoWorked fine in w3m. I wish people on this site would stop complaining that their crappy user agents don't work correctly.
- euyyn 10y agoI just curl web pages by hand!
- NoGravitas 10y agoYou use curl! Luxury! I use telnet.
- throwaway2016a 10y agoPersonally I use netcat
- jack9 10y ago"surprising" as in "not surprising" - way to go LA Times. You hit another one out of the park with backwards editorializing. Next, another "surprising" link between water pollution and cancer.
- kbutler 10y agoIt is surprising that particles going into your lungs would have significant cognitive effects. Although it's fashionable to assert that pollution causes every imaginable ill effect, there needs to be a causal chain. In this case, "air pollutants induced inflammation, cell death and the buildup of amyloid protein in the brain". That chain is not intuitive (and not predicted), thus, "Surprising."
- logical42 10y agoErr.. what? Particles going into your lungs to produce cognitive effects is the basis behind smoking cigarettes, marijuana, meth, etc.
- bsder 10y agoUh, no. Nicotine, THC, etc. are the active ingredients expected to cause cognitive effects. The particles are regarded as particularly unwanted--especially by marijuana users. This is the whole idea behind vaporizers.
- throwaway2016a 10y agoWhat would be surprising to me is that they found air pollution makes Alzheimers less likely. If it accelerates it that's unfortunately but I'm not surprised.
- jimlawruk 10y agoIs the cause "air" pollution, or could it be "noise" pollution? I would think living near loud traffic areas might lead to less quality sleep for the brain. And a lack of sleep is linked with alzheimers. Just a thought.
- clumsysmurf 10y agoParticles can traverse through the nose / olfactory bulb straight to the brain. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26194036 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26194036
- thomyorkie 10y agoI wonder if breathing through your mouth would mitigate these effects.
- mrfusion 10y agoI'm curious if this could be related to lack of exercise or lack of sunlight or perhaps poor diet. All would probably go along with living in a high pollution area? Edit. They mention they control for a lot of those factors. I wonder how well they can do that?
- mrfusion 10y agoWhat are examples of places with high levels of these pollutants? Are suburbs generally ok? Should I limit exercise in urban areas? Would it be bad to live near a highway?