Oxygen news: Air pollution 'a danger to women'
Being constantly exposed to air pollution appears to present a danger to women, according to the results of a new study.
The investigation found an acceleration in the decline in cognitive functioning among females from areas with high levels of fine and coarse particles in the atmosphere.
Lead author of the research Jennifer Weuve, assistant professor of the Rush Institute of Healthy Aging, analysed the cases of 19,409 women in the US between the ages of 70 to 81 over a 14-year period.
"Unlike other factors that may be involved in dementia such as diet and physical activity, air pollution is something we can intervene on as a society at large through policy, regulation and technology," she stated.
This could encourage individuals to take care of themselves in smoggy regions by using portable oxygen to help protect them from breathing in particulate matter.
Researchers including resource economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Sylvia Brandt recently found that air pollution is more harmful to health than previously understood.
Posted by Stewart Elliott
14/02/2012 16:49:56
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