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It turns out that there are people who are advised to wear a mask for life
If you thought the masks we were all used to wearing in the corona were going to disappear - think again.
It turns out that even after the corona is finished, very large parts of the world have a really good reason to keep wearing them.
The reason - air pollution can lead to dementia and you should protect against it
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Sunday, 08 August 2021, 10:10 Updated: 10:15
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It turns out that the corona virus is not the only reason why we should wear face masks.
According to a new and alarming study, people living in contaminated areas should also hide their mouths and noses to prevent themselves from developing dementia.
Researchers warn that even a small amount of air pollution is associated with a higher risk of brain disease.
Living near a shopping center compared to a park, for example, is associated with a 16 percent higher dementia incidence.
Previous studies have shown that long-term exposure to air pollution can be dangerous to health and can lead to conditions that affect the lungs and heart.
Most studies have focused on an element of air pollution known as particulate matter or PM 2.5 - tiny, breathable particles up to 2.5 microns in size that are 40 times the width of human hair.
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In a study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers from the University of Washington examined specific addresses in Seattle using data from large projects from the 1970s and 1990s and the association with a higher risk of dementia.
Once a patient with dementia was identified, the researchers compared the average exposure to infection of each participant up to the age at which the patient was diagnosed with dementia.
For example, if a person was diagnosed with dementia at age 72, the researchers compared the exposure of other participants' infection during the decade before each of them reached 72.
The masks will probably stay with us for a long time to come.
A man wearing a mask in London (Photo: AP)
In their final analysis, the researchers found that one microgram difference per cubic meter between homes was associated with a 16 percent higher dementia incidence.
A similar link has been found in Alzheimer's dementia in particular.
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"We know that dementia develops over time," editor-in-chief Rachel Schaefer, a doctoral student at the University of Washington, said in a press release. "It takes years - even decades - for these pathologies to develop in the brain, so we had to look at exposures that covered this long period. We have had the ability to estimate exposures for 40 years in this area. It is unprecedented in this study, in addition to a unique aspect of our research. "On an entire population with a large number of people. So even a small change in the relative risk is ultimately important on a population scale."
"There are some things people can do, such as wearing masks, that are becoming more normal because of the corona," says Schaeffer. "But it is not fair to impose the burden on people alone. These figures could support further policy action at the local and national levels to control particulate air pollution sources."
In 2018, it was announced by the World Health Organization that the smallest polluted air particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm and less, are the most dangerous pollutants to public health.
This is due to the fact that they damage the airways and blood vessels so that they cause myocardial infarction and stroke.
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