{"id":229546,"date":"2026-01-22T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/air-pollution-linked-to-higher-als-risk-and-faster-decline"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:37:00","slug":"air-pollution-linked-to-higher-als-risk-and-faster-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/air-pollution-linked-to-higher-als-risk-and-faster-decline","title":{"rendered":"Air Pollution Linked to Higher ALS Risk And Faster Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-pollution-linked-to-higher-als-risk-and-faster-decline.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stephen-hawking\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Stephen Hawking<\/a> lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neurone disease, for 55 years. He was one of the longest-surviving people with the condition.<\/p>\n<p>However, most people with <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/topics\/motor-neuron-disease-7326\">motor neurone disease<\/a> are not as lucky. It often progresses quickly, and many pass away within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mndassociation.org\/about-mnd\/mnd-explained\/what-is-mnd?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=11242803743&gbraid=0AAAAAD2ZVeha5qE2pvcFKA94eGzQYzvCt&gclid=CjwKCAiA7LzLBhAgEiwAjMWzCEZ9qe2VjISZU9maKjCbE2cjB-M3CsZpUuVKDSoeh5I6G9sjRDQFABoCsZ4QAvD_BwE\">two to five years<\/a> of diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>There is still no cure. Genetics account for only about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mndassociation.org\/about-mnd\/mnd-explained\/inherited-mnd\">10% of cases<\/a>, and the rest of the causes are still largely a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientist Stephen Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neurone disease, for 55 years. He was one of the longest-surviving people with the condition. However, most people with motor neurone disease are not as lucky. It often progresses quickly, and many pass away within two to five years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229546","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=229546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}