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2024 United States Elections: Air Pollution, Neurodegeneration, Neuropsychiatric, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Who Cares?
Summary
This commentary argues that air pollution, including industrial nanoplastics and combustion nanoparticles, should be a top concern for US voters because of strong links to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other brain diseases. The authors point out that even children and young adults are showing early brain changes associated with neurodegenerative diseases due to pollution exposure. The piece highlights nanoplastics as part of the airborne pollution mix that may contribute to rising rates of brain-related illnesses.
Air pollution exposures ought to be of significant interest for the United States (US) public as health issues will play a role in the 2024 elections. Citizens are not aware of the harmful brain impact of exposures to ubiquitous anthropogenic combustion emissions and friction-derived nanoparticles, industrial nanoplastics, the growing risk of wildfires, and the smoke plumes of soot. Ample consideration of pediatric and early adulthood hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and associations with neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders in the process of setting, reviewing, and implementing standards for particulate matter (PM)2.5, ultrafine PM, and industrial nanoparticles must be of interest to US citizens.