Long‐Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Incidence of Parkinson's Disease: A Danish Nationwide Administrative Cohort Study
In a representative nationwide cohort, we find that long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with PD incidence. This unique study, with access to incidence data from administrative health registers, provides new evidence supporting air pollution as a PD risk factor. © 2026 The Author(s). Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
Authors
- Laust Hvas Mortensen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6399-495X)
- Sonja Antić
- Thomas Cole-Hunter
- George Maria Napolitano
- Steffen Loft
- Gerard Hoek
- Rina So
- Stéphane Tuffier
- Beate Ritz
- Bert Brunekreef
- Marie Laura Bergmann
- Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
- Youn-Hee Lim
- Jiawei Zhang
- Kees de Hoogh
Institutions
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Statistics Denmark (DK)
- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (CH)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of Basel (CH)
- Utrecht University (NL)
- Aarhus University Hospital (DK)
- University of California System (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Movement Disorders
- Published
- 2026-03-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.70234
- Primary Topic
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00