Youth in polluted cities at increased risk of Alzheimer’s
MUSCAT: The Sultanate expresses its support to the reasons that prompted the US, UK and France to take military procedures against Syrian military installations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on its official Twitter handle.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump triumphantly declared “Mission Accomplished!” on Saturday following a Us-led missile assault on Syria and warned another attack could follow if Damascus were to unleash more chemical weapons.
The combined Us-frenchbritish operation, which saw more than 100 cruise missiles smash into three chemical weapons facilities early on Saturday, earned quick scorn from Russia, which pushed for a vote at the UN Security Council condemning the strikes.
Trump and his allies ordered the pre-dawn mission in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack a week ago on the rebel-held town of Douma that left more than 40 people dead. NEW YORK: Children and young adults living in polluted megacities are at increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s, a debilitating brain disease characterised by memory loss, a new study has warned.
“Alzheimer’s disease hallmarks start in childhood in polluted environments, and we must implement preventative measures early,” said one of the researchers Lilian Calderon-garciduenas from University of Montana in the US.
“It is useless to take reactive actions WASHINGTON: The UN Security Council has rejected a resolution proposed by Russia to condemn military strikes on Syria. The council rejected the resolution by a vote of 8-3 with four abstentions. The vote took place during an emergency meeting of the council in New York.
Both the government of Syria’s Bashar al Assad and its ally Russia have denied all responsibility for the April 7 attack, and Moscow slammed the “aggressive actions” of the Western coalition, but it has not yet responded militarily.
US Ambassador Nikki Haley warned her UN counterparts that although the mission was designed as a one-off, that did not preclude further action against Assad.
“I spoke to the president this morning and he said: ‘If the Syrian government uses this poisonous gas again, the United States is decades later,” Calderon-garciduenas said. The findings, published in the Journal of Environmental Research, indicate that Alzheimer’s starts in early childhood, and the disease progression relates to age, pollution exposure and status of Apolipoprotein E (APOE 4).
The researchers studied 203 autopsies of Mexico City residents in the US ranging in age from 11 months to 40 years. The researchers tracked two abnormal proteins that indicate development of Alzheimer’s, and they detected the early stages of the disease in babies less than a year old.
The scientists found heightened levels of the two abnormal proteins — hyperphosphorylated tau and beta amyloid — in the brains of young urbanites with lifetime exposures to fine-particulate-matter pollution (PM2.5). They also tracked APOE 4 as well as lifetime cumulative exposure to unhealthy levels of PM2.5 — particles which are at least 30 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.