Associations of Long-Term Air Pollution Exposure with Incident Dementia among Older U.S. Adults: The Health and Retirement Study

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Evidence suggests that long-term exposures to some air pollutants are detrimental for late-life cognition yet associations with incident dementia are less consistent. This may be partially due to the common use of administrative records to identify dementia, which can lead to inaccurate diagnoses and diagnosis patterns that vary by place. This study investigates associations between long-term air pollution exposures and...