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Pollution May Age the Brain

June 22, 2015 Washington State Senior Citizens' Lobby

Exposure to air pollution may hasten brain aging, a new study has found.

Researchers studied 1,403 women without dementia who were initially enrolled in a large health study from 1996 to 1998. They measured their brain volume with M.R.I. scans in 2005 and 2006, when the women were 71 to 89 years old.

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