Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia
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Re: Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia
#2What is going on with all the air pollution articles hitting HN this week? This is the 4th(?) I’ve seen in about 3 days. Any tech topic and I might not think about it, but air purification doesn’t really seem to be the kind of topic I’d expect to see so much here.
Re: Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia
#3What is going on with all the air pollution articles hitting HN this week? This is the 4th(?) I’ve seen in about 3 days. Any tech topic and I might not think about it, but air purification doesn’t really seem to be the kind of topic I’d expect to see so much here.
A lot of HN news has to do with improving/preserving cognition, that's the connection that I see.
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#4> Both of these studies estimated that around 6 to 7 percent of all dementia cases in their samples could be attributed to air pollution exposures
Is it just me or does this seem very flimsy? Sounds like this model catches very few cases, and there is no mention in TFA of how many false positives were found. The quasi-causal study sounds a bit better, but judging by how much the article seems to have overplayed the correlational studies, I have a feeling the quasi-causal study isn't that good either
Re: Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia
#5What is going on with all the air pollution articles hitting HN this week? This is the 4th(?) I’ve seen in about 3 days. Any tech topic and I might not think about it, but air purification doesn’t really seem to be the kind of topic I’d expect to see so much here.
With the risk of coming across as an everything-is-an-ad kind of person, some of the previous posts I read have the following pattern:
1. Someone asks how can they measure air in their home/workplace
2. Followed by casual name dropping of CO2 sensors or air particle/quality sensors.
No data to back this up just possibly too much aluminium wrapped around my head.
Re: Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia
#6What is going on with all the air pollution articles hitting HN this week? This is the 4th(?) I’ve seen in about 3 days. Any tech topic and I might not think about it, but air purification doesn’t really seem to be the kind of topic I’d expect to see so much here.
With the risk of coming across as an everything-is-an-ad kind of person, some of the previous posts I read have the following pattern: 1. Someone asks how can they measure air in their home/workplace 2. Followed by casual name dropping of CO2 sensors or air particle/quality sensors. No data to back this up just possibly too much aluminium wrapped around my head.
Same goes for HEPA filter purifiers name dropping
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#7Lead in particular is nasty and still in use for aviation fuel:
>the most commonly used grades of avgas still contain tetraethyllead (TEL), a toxic substance used to prevent engine knocking (detonation), with ongoing experiments aimed at eventually reducing or eliminating the use of TEL in aviation gasoline
Re: Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia
#8Lead in particular is nasty and still in use for aviation fuel: >the most commonly used grades of avgas still contain tetraethyllead (TEL), a toxic substance used to prevent engine knocking (detonation), with ongoing experiments aimed at eventually reducing or eliminating the use of TEL in aviation gasoline
Definitely, but it’s worth noting for people who are unfamiliar - avgas isn’t jet fuel - it’s only used in small piston planes, not anything with turbine engines. It’s still a problem because there are plenty of that kind of aircraft, but most commercial aviation isn’t using leaded fuel.
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#9As far as anecdotes go, since I moved to London I noticed a sharp decrease in memory performance, heavy hair loss, and a general feeling of unhealthiness, developed a random persistent cough as well. The fact that you can always see a heavy haze even in short tube tunnels tells a lot on the air quality, the last underground cleaning train stopped working in the eighties...very unhealthy place to live/work in my opinion.
Re: Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia
#10What is going on with all the air pollution articles hitting HN this week? This is the 4th(?) I’ve seen in about 3 days. Any tech topic and I might not think about it, but air purification doesn’t really seem to be the kind of topic I’d expect to see so much here.
A lot of HN news has to do with improving/preserving cognition, that's the connection that I see.
Also science in general, and the betterment of society.