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Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants and the prevalence of dementia.<\/p>\n

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For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and researchers follow people with cognitive impairment as they age, as well as a group with normal cognition.<\/p>\n

Both patients, a man and a woman, had agreed to donate their brains after they died for further research. \u201cAn amazing gift,\u201d said Dr. Edward Lee, the neuropathologist who directs the brain bank<\/a> at the university\u2019s Perelman School of Medicine. \u201cThey were both very dedicated to helping us understand Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man, who died at 83 with dementia, had lived in the Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia with hired caregivers. The autopsy showed large amounts of amyloid plaques and tau tangles, the proteins associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, spreading through his brain.<\/p>\n

Researchers also found infarcts, small spots of damaged tissue, indicating that he had suffered several strokes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By contrast, the woman, who was 84 when she died of brain cancer, \u201chad barely any Alzheimer\u2019s pathology,\u201d Dr. Lee said. \u201cWe had tested her year after year, and she had no cognitive issues at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man had lived a few blocks from Interstate 676, which slices through downtown Philadelphia. The woman had lived a few miles away in the suburb of Gladwyne, Pa., surrounded by woods and a country club.<\/p>\n

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Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants and the prevalence of dementia.For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and researchers follow people with cognitive impairment as they age, as well as a group with normal cognition.Both patients, a man and a woman, had agreed to donate their brains after they died for further research. \u201cAn amazing gift,\u201d said Dr. Edward Lee, the neuropathologist who directs the brain bank at the university\u2019s Perelman School of Medicine. \u201cThey were both very dedicated to helping us understand Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\u201dThe man, who died at 83 with dementia, had lived in the Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia with hired caregivers. The autopsy showed large amounts of amyloid plaques and tau tangles, the proteins associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, spreading through his brain.Researchers also found infarcts, small spots of damaged tissue, indicating that he had suffered several strokes.By contrast, the woman, who was 84 when she died of brain cancer, \u201chad barely any Alzheimer\u2019s pathology,\u201d Dr. Lee said. \u201cWe had tested her year after year, and she had no cognitive issues at all.\u201dThe man had lived a few blocks from Interstate 676, which slices through downtown Philadelphia. The woman had lived a few miles away in the suburb of Gladwyne, Pa., surrounded by woods and a country club.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36070,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36071,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36068\/revisions\/36071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}