{"id":175477,"date":"2023-11-06T04:48:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/neurological-warning-groundbreaking-study-reveals-that-air-pollution-could-increase-your-risk-of-parkinsons-by-56"},"modified":"2023-11-06T04:48:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:48:01","slug":"neurological-warning-groundbreaking-study-reveals-that-air-pollution-could-increase-your-risk-of-parkinsons-by-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/neurological-warning-groundbreaking-study-reveals-that-air-pollution-could-increase-your-risk-of-parkinsons-by-56","title":{"rendered":"Neurological Warning: Groundbreaking Study Reveals That Air Pollution Could Increase Your Risk of Parkinson\u2019s by 56%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neurological-warning-groundbreaking-study-reveals-that-air-pollution-could-increase-your-risk-of-parkinsons-by-562.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Barrow Neurological Institute have conducted a study revealing that residing in areas with average air pollution levels is associated with a 56% increased risk of Parkinson\u2019s disease when compared to those living in regions with the lowest level of air pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which was recently published in <em><i>Neurology<\/i> \u2013 <\/em>the medical journal of the American Academy of <i>Neurology<\/i><em> \u2013<\/em> was conducted to identify national, geographic patterns of Parkinson\u2019s disease and test for nationwide and region-specific associations with fine particulate matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrevious studies have shown fine particulate matter to cause inflammation in the brain, a known mechanism by which Parkinson\u2019s disease could develop,\u201d says Brittany Krzyzanowski, PhD, a researcher at Barrow Neurological Institute, who led the study. \u201cUsing state-of-the-art geospatial analytical techniques, we were, for the first time, able to confirm a strong nationwide association between incident Parkinson\u2019s disease and fine particulate matter in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Barrow Neurological Institute have conducted a study revealing that residing in areas with average air pollution levels is associated with a 56% increased risk of Parkinson\u2019s disease when compared to those living in regions with the lowest level of air pollution. The study, which was recently published in Neurology \u2013 the medical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}