Pollution May Dim Thinking Skills, Study in China Suggests

•  A study in china says that there is a link between air pollution and people's language and maths skill.
• The connection between air pollution and respiratory diseases are well known and the experts now says that it further leads to stroke and heart problems.
• Later study by researchers in US and China indicates long-term exposure to air pollution affected performance on nationwide maths and word-recognition tests by more than 25,000 people across 162 Chinese counties.
• The impact was mostly seen among older men,and the results were troubling because if the risk factor foe Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

        Source :https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/world/asia/pollution-health-china.html