According to a peer-reviewed study that involved 8,500 children, children between the ages of 9 and 10 may have impaired learning and memory performance as a result of air pollution from ammonium nitrate, which is often produced by farming and agricultural activities.
According to research published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, “ammonium nitrate, a particular component of fine particle air pollution, or PM2.5, is also implicated in Alzheimer’s and dementia risk in adults, suggesting that PM2.5 may cause neurocognitive harm across the lifespan.” When nitric acid and ammonia gas, which are produced by burning fossil fuels and agricultural practices, respectively, react in the atmosphere, ammonium nitrate is created.
At the University of Southern California’s (USC) Keck School of Medicine, Megan Herting, an associate professor of population and public health sciences, advocated “for more detailed research on particulate matter sources and chemical components.”
Deciphering the subtleties can benefit in controlling air quality and figuring out long-term neurocognitive impacts, according to Herting.\
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