MILWAUKEE: Middle-aged and older adults who live in towns and cities suffer aging of the brain and increased risk of dementia and strokes because of air pollution, new research suggests.
A study of more than 900 adults found that those living near major roads suffered cerebral shrinkage, aging their brains by the equivalent of one year, and increasing their dementia risk.
Those in the study were also almost 50 per cent more likely to suffer a type of silent stroke which also increases the chance of the degenerative disease…