Racial and ethnic differences in the impact of air pollution on the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the Multiethnic Cohort Study
In this multiethnic population, incidence of ADRD increased with exposures to PM<sub>2.5</sub>, aUFP, and NO<sub>2</sub> in all subjects and this pattern was most prominent among African American adults. These results emphasize that ADRD prevention should include not only individual-level factors but also population-wide policies and regulation to curb air pollution.
Authors
- D. O. Stram
- Scott Fruin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2953-0457)
- Beate R. Ritz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6976-7339)
- V. Wendy Setiawan
- Iona Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4132-2893)
- Chiuchen Tseng
- Lynne R. Wilkens
- Eileen M. Crimmins
- Howard Hu
- Burcu F. Darst
- Christopher Haiman
- Timothy Larson
- Jun Wu
- Song-Yi Park
- Anna H. Wu
- Loïc Le Marchand
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- Cape Town HVTN Immunology Laboratory / Hutchinson Centre Research Institute of South Africa (ZA)
- Hawaii Pacific University (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Fred Hutch Cancer Center (US)
- Cancer Center of Hawaii (US)
- Faculty of Public Health (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Environment International
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2026.110169
- Primary Topic
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00