{"id":222799,"date":"2025-10-02T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/outdoor-air-exposure-to-industrial-solvent-trichloroethylene-may-raise-risk-of-parkinsons-disease"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:39:00","slug":"outdoor-air-exposure-to-industrial-solvent-trichloroethylene-may-raise-risk-of-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/outdoor-air-exposure-to-industrial-solvent-trichloroethylene-may-raise-risk-of-parkinsons-disease","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor air exposure to industrial solvent trichloroethylene may raise risk of Parkinson\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/outdoor-air-exposure-to-industrial-solvent-trichloroethylene-may-raise-risk-of-parkinsons-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long-term exposure to the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) outdoors may be linked to an increased risk of Parkinson\u2019s disease, according to a large nationwide study published in Neurology.<\/p>\n<p>TCE is a chemical used in metal degreasing, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/dry+cleaning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dry cleaning<\/a> and other industrial applications. Although TCE has been banned for certain uses, it remains in use today as an industrial solvent and is a persistent environmental pollutant in air, water and soil across the United States. The study does not prove that TCE exposure causes Parkinson\u2019s disease, it only shows an association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this nationwide study of older adults, long-term exposure to trichloroethylene in outdoor air was associated with a small but measurable increase in Parkinson\u2019s risk,\u201d said study author Brittany Krzyzanowski, Ph.D., of Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. \u201cThese findings add to a growing body of evidence that environmental exposures may contribute to Parkinson\u2019s disease.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term exposure to the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) outdoors may be linked to an increased risk of Parkinson\u2019s disease, according to a large nationwide study published in Neurology. TCE is a chemical used in metal degreasing, dry cleaning and other industrial applications. Although TCE has been banned for certain uses, it remains in use today [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222799","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=222799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}