Long‐Term Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Incident Dementia in a Large California Cohort
Holly C Elser, Timothy B Frankland, Sara Y Tartof, Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, Jennifer J. Manly, Jacqueline M Torres, Alexander J Northrop, Tarik Benmarhnia, Chen Chen, Joan A Casey · 2025
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Holly C Elser and co-authors asked whether long years of wildfire smoke raise the risk of dementia. Fine dust in air has been tied to dementia in past work. Wildfire dust is a fast-growing share of that load as fire seasons grow longer and hotter. The team used health plan records from Southern California for the years 2009 to 2019.
The plan held more than one point two million members aged sixty and up, all free of dementia at the start. Dust levels were set by home area and refreshed each three months. For each step up in three-year wildfire dust, the odds of a dementia finding rose by about ten percent. The same step in dust from other sources raised odds by about one percent. The wildfire edge came with wide bounds, so more work must pin it down.
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| CREATOR | Holly C Elser, Timothy B Frankland, Sara Y Tartof, Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, Jennifer J. Manly, Jacqueline M Torres, Alexander J Northrop, Tarik Benmarhnia, Chen Chen, Joan A Casey |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |