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How PM2.5 wrecks your airways and how the damage might be reversed - EurekAlert!

Does outdoor air pollution affect indoor air quality? Depending on a building’s HVAC system, fine particulate pollution, or PM2.5, from wildfire smoke can infiltrate buildings, while pollution associated with dust events and winter inversions is kept out.

From a systematic review of 28 studies of air pollution: "We found a significant association of PM2.5 (fine particulate matter) with Alzheimer’s disease"

Tackling the dual threat: a global strategy for PM2.5 and O3 pollution - EurekAlert

Study forecasts 110,000 premature deaths by 2 - EurekAlert

Particulate pollution from coal associated with double the risk of mortality than PM2.5 from other sources