Is having dementia linked to where you live?
summary
Claims a link between diesel-related particulates (PM2.5/PM10/NO2) and dementia, with a hint of increased early-onset cases in high-exposure areas; uses Python notebooks and GeoPandas spatial joins to merge monitoring grids with regional dementia counts, plotting age-standardized prevalence and five-year cumulative PM2.5 maps. Built reproducible maps and classifiers that expose no strong nationwide correlation once age and sampling biases are corrected, but detect a threshold-like signal for younger cohorts; analysis is exploratory, limited by sparse monitors, mismatched geographies, migration and socioeconomic confounders.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Project introduction
- 4:47Dementia and air pollution links
- 9:44Geospatial data with Python
- 20:30PM 2.5 and dementia in Netherlands
- 24:29UK and California data challenges
- 29:05PM 2.5 and early-onset dementia
- 30:53Policy recommendations
- 35:56Q&A
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