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The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance
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Significance: Most of the population in developing countries live in places with unsafe air. Utilizing variations in transitory and cumulative air pollution exposures for the same individuals over time in China, we provide evidence that polluted air may impede cognitive ability as people become older, especially for less educated men. Cutting annual mean concentration of particulate matter smaller than 10 μm (PM10) in China to the Environmental Protection Agency’s standard (50 μg/m 3 ) would move people from the median to the 63rd percentile (verbal test scores) and the 58th percentile (math test scores), respectively. The damage on the aging brain by air pollution likely imposes substantial health and economic costs, considering that cognitive functioning is critical for the elderly for both running daily errands and making high-stake decisions.
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- Authors
- Zhang, X., Chen, X., & Zhang, X.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2018-08-27
- Volume
- 115
- Issue
- 37
- Pages
- 9193-9197
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W2889170548
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- 807
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 29.62
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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