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Dementia link to road traffic?

06 January 2017

 

The possible health impacts of road traffic made front page news this week, as Canadian researchers reported a link between living close to main roads and dementia.

“Busy roads can cause dementia,” declared Daily Express, exaggerating the findings of the research, which was observational and so did not establish causality.

“Millions of people are at risk of dementia because they live near a busy road, scientists warn today,” said the paper. “Heath experts believe...

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