Long-term air pollution exposure shows no clear link to ALS in UK study
WHY IT MATTERS
If you have ALS or are worried about developing it, this study suggests that long-term air pollution exposure is unlikely to be a major cause, which may help reduce anxiety about environmental risk factors you cannot easily control.
A large study in the UK followed over 500,000 people for about 10 years and found that breathing polluted air for a long time does not appear to increase the risk of getting ALS, a disease that affects nerve cells that control muscles. Fewer than 1,000 people in the study developed ALS during the study period. This suggests that air pollution may not be an important risk factor for developing ALS.
Long-term exposure to air pollution is not associated with an altered, or increased, risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). That’s according to a new study from the U.K. that used data from more than 500,000 people in the European nation who were followed, on average, for nearly a decade. Fewer than 1,000 individuals developed ALS, […] The post Long-term air pollution exposure shows no clear link to ALS in UK study appeared first on ALS News Today .