"What we want to do is encourage people to be aware and mitigate any risks by doing what they can to reduce them," said Niki Rubarth, regional director for the Alzheimer's Association of Northern California.
"There's a greater concentration of toxic chemicals in wildfire smoke. Wildfires burn everything in their path so that can be anything," Rubarth said.
The research revealed that the risk of dementia diagnosis due to exposure to PM2.5 in wildfire smoke was notably stronger than the risk posed by other sources of PM2.5 air pollution.
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