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Ultrafine dust particles that often cloak the skies of South Korea have been found to worsen certain mental health conditions like depression and anxiety.
Park Se-young has more.
When ultrafine dust soars to bad levels, …those vulnerable to neuropsychiatric conditions have a reason to be extra careful.
A study of more than six-hundred cognitive disorder patients and their guardians in Korea found a link between ultrafine dust and worsened symptoms.
In months where the average ultrafine dust concentration increases by eight-point-three micrograms per cubic meter, …patients' neuropsychiatric behavioral symptoms were 16-point-seven percent worse.
In patients with mild cognitive impairments, …the symptoms were 40-point-seven percent worse.
While there have long been concerns of fine dust particles smaller than two-point-five micrometers in diameter increasing the risk of cognitive and mental disorders, …this is the first time that research has identified a relationship between ultrafine dust and neuropsychiatric behavior.
"Since ultrafine dust can affect not only internal diseases but also mental illness and brain health, the elderly and those with dementia should be extra careful."
The study, which used the Korean version of Behavior Rating Scale for Dementia, was published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
Park Se-young, Arirang News.
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