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  1. Olfactory dysfunction in parkinsonism: a general deficit unrelated to neurologic signs, disease stage, or disease duration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 1988-08-01 Prevention and risk

    To explore the nature of the olfactory dysfunction associated with Parkinson's disease (PD), 81 PD patients who scored well on a cognitive screening test were administered the 40-odorant University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test; 38 were additionally given a forced-choice phenylethyl alcohol odor detection threshold test.

  2. Ambient fine particulate matter exposure and incident mild cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021-04-26 Risk factors

    Modeling estimated single-year exposure, each 1 μg/m3 higher ambient PM2.5 was associated with 67% higher adjusted risk of incident dementia (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.669, 95% credible interval [CI]: 1.298, 2.136) and 75% higher adjusted risk of incident MCI (HR = 1.746, 95% CI: 1.518, 2.032).

  3. Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter and dementia incidence: A cohort study in Hong Kong

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) 2020-12-25 Risk factors

    Recent studies suggested that long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) was related to a higher risk of dementia incidence or hospitalizations in western populations, but the evidence is limited in Asian cities.

  4. Alcohol consumption and sleep quality: a community-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Public health nutrition 2020-11-13 Risk factors

    We observed a dose-response association between higher alcohol consumption in 2006 and worse sleep quality in 2012 (Ptrend < 0·001), after adjusting for age, sex, socio-economic status, smoking status, physical activity, obesity, plasma lipid profiles, diabetes and hypertension.

  5. Association between air pollutants and dementia risk in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015-05-14 Risk factors

    Long-term exposure to the highest tertile of PM10 or ozone was significantly associated with an increased risk of AD and VaD.

  6. Illness duration and symptom profile in symptomatic UK school-aged children tested for SARS-CoV-2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Lancet. Child & adolescent health 2021-08-03 Digital health tools

    Illness duration and symptom prevalence, duration, and burden were analysed for children testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 for whom illness duration could be determined, and were assessed overall and for younger (age 5-11 years) and older (age 12-17 years) groups.

  7. Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Incident Dementia: Direct and Indirect Pathways Through Metabolic Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Risk factors

    Higher TRAP-NOx was associated with incident dementia (HR = 1.55 for the highest versus lower tertiles, 95% CI = 1.04, 2.55).

  8. Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Parkinson's Disease in Denmark: A Case-Control Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Environmental health perspectives 2015-07-07 Risk factors

    Our findings raise concerns about potential effects of air pollution from traffic and other sources on the risk of PD, particularly in populations with high or increasing exposures.

  9. The Canadian Study of Health and Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Stroke 1997-03-01 Risk factors

    Risk of VaD was associated with history of arterial hypertension (OR, 2.08; 95% confidence interval, 1.29 to 3.35).

  10. Environmental Factors and Risk of Early-Onset Dementia: A Population-Based Case-Control Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2025-12-11 Risk factors

    Green spaces generally showed an inverse association with EOD risk that was almost linear for AD and inverted U-shaped for non-AD.

  11. Post-stroke dysphagia and ambient air pollution are associated with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-10-10 Risk factors

    The univariable regression models revealed a higher likelihood of dementia diagnosis in patients with dysphagia (odds ratio = 1.493, 95% confidence interval = 1.000-2.228).

  12. Air Pollution: A Silent Key Driver of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Biomedicines 2023-05-18 Risk factors

    In 2017, the Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care included air pollution in its list of potential risk factors for dementia; in 2018, the Lancet Commission on Pollution concluded that the evidence for a causal relationship between fine particulate matter (PM) and dementia is encouraging.

  13. Metals, Nanoparticles, Particulate Matter, and Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2022-01-21 Prevention trials

    Exposure to metals is ubiquitous and emission sources include gasoline, diesel, smoke from wildfires, contaminated soil, water and food, medical implants, waste recycling facilities, subway exposures, and occupational environments.

  14. Air Pollution: A Neglected Risk Factor for Dementia in Latin America and the Caribbean

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2021-07-22 Risk factors

    The risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) rises with increasing age and polluted air.

  15. Association between air pollution from residential wood burning and dementia incidence in a longitudinal study in Northern Sweden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. PloS one 2018-06-13 Risk factors

    If the associations we observed are causal, then air pollution from residential wood burning, and air pollution from traffic, might be independent important risk factors for dementia.

  16. Long-term exposure to residential green and blue spaces and anxiety and depression in adults: A cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Environmental research 2018-01-19 Prevention trials

    Our findings suggest a potential protective role of green spaces on mental health (depression and anxiety) in adults, but further studies, especially longitudinal studies, are needed to provide further evidence of these benefits and of the mediation role of exposures like air pollution and noise.

  17. Review of endocrine disorders associated with environmental toxicants and possible involved mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Life sciences 2015-10-21 Risk factors

    Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) are released into environment from different sources.

  18. Elevated serum pesticide levels and risk of Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-07-01 Risk factors

    These data suggest that beta-HCH is associated with a diagnosis of PD.

  19. Ambient air pollution, covert cerebrovascular disease and cognition: results from the ISSYS study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2024-07-19 Risk factors

    At baseline, 99 participants (10.1%) had covert brain infarcts and 91 (9.3%) had extensive periventricular white matter hyperintensities (WMHs).

  20. Association between air pollution and CSF sTREM2 in cognitively normal older adults: The CABLE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2022-10-31 Risk factors

    Ambient 2-year averaged exposure of PM2.5 was associated with changes of neuroinflammatory markers, that is, CSF sTREM2 (β = -0.116, p = 0.0002).

  21. Long-Term Air Pollution and Traffic Noise Exposures and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Environmental health perspectives 2016-02-05 Risk factors

    Long-term exposures to air pollution and traffic noise were positively associated with MCI, mainly with the amnestic subtype.

  22. Occupational risk factors in Alzheimer's disease: a review assessing the quality of published epidemiological studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Occupational and environmental medicine 2007-05-24 Risk factors

    Epidemiological evidence of an association between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the most frequently studied occupational exposures--pesticides, solvents, electromagnetic fields (EMF), lead and aluminium--is inconsistent.

  23. Environmental risk factors for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism: the Geoparkinson study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Occupational and environmental medicine 2007-03-01 Risk factors

    The association of pesticide exposure with Parkinson's disease suggests a causative role.

  24. The built environment and mental health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2003-12-01 Disparities

    The built environment has direct and indirect effects on mental health.

  25. Air toxics and late-life dementia and cognitive impairment in Mexican Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Environmental research 2025-10-12 Risk factors

    Among the air toxics, higher 1,3-butadiene levels we estimated a hazard ratio of 1.12 (95 % CI: 1.00, 1.25) for incident dementia/CIND per IQR increase in 1,3-butadiene exposures.

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