Living near traffic corridors linked to risk of MS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease: UBC study

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Living near traffic corridors linked to risk of MS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease: UBC study

Rafferty Baker at CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-study-environment-traffic-parkinsons-alzheimers-1.5438645

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Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found that living near major roads or highways is linked to an increased risk of neurological disorders, while proximity to parks and green spaces is linked to a decreased risk.

The findings are included in a study published this week in the journal Environmental Health.

"Neurological disorders are one of the leading causes of death and disability, globally, and we know very little about the risk factors associated with neurological disorders," said Weiran Yuchi, the study's lead author and PhD candidate at UBC school of population and public health.

Yuchi's study looked at the neurological health effects of green space, air and noise pollution all together, but she said they made no findings regarding noise pollution.

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[Peregrine Took]

1. For many miles our running trail is along side a busy highway.

I have to think this is not good but it such a great trail - part asphalt and part dirt - so you have your choice.

'Hate to give it up as its really handy in the nasty weather as its plowed.

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2. I thought of not posting because it is so depressing and i knew it

would affect so many. But then i posted because it would affect so many. My mom lived on a farm, university in a small city, then in a leafy village and in the forest at the lake with vacations to the coast of Nova Scotia. She still got Parkinsons'. So it depends on other things too. There is a flight path over NS where my parents vacationed of US planes going to Europe, so there is that.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. I live right by I95.

I can walk for like 2 minutes through the half ass woods and I can see 95 just below me,it's carved in between two hills.

I shudder to think how many particulates I inhale every day.

But I am disabled on hud.
And thier putting in a new 4 story building for section 8.

Yeah put the poor and disabled near a major highway ,the hum of traffic never ceases here.

They want us to die. Never look for kindness from rich pigs and republicans.

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4. Yes. It is a stratefied everywhere when it comes to who lives near highways. Vibes to you.