• JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca
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    More specifically:

    « Further analysis revealed that while exposure to these pollutants increased the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, the effect seemed stronger for vascular dementia, a type of dementia caused by reduced blood flow to the brain. Around 180,000 people in the UK are thought to be affected by this type of dementia. However, as there were only a small number of studies that examined this difference, the researchers did not class it as statistically significant.«

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      Garbage take. Also, and I can’t believe I’m saying this unironically, but maybe… think of the children?

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        OK maybe I didn’t really put that well. What I mean is that the far right oligarchy stooges have leveraged the age related mental decline of large swaths of the population into an electoral stranglehold that makes positive change very hard to achieve.