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Air pollution and mental health: association, mechanisms and methods
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Title: | Air pollution and mental health: association, mechanisms and methods |
Authors: | King, J Zhang, S Cohen, A |
Item Type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | Purpose of review: There is increasing interest in the links between exposure to air pollution and a range of health outcomes. The association with mental health however is much less established. This article reviews developments in the field over the past 12 months, highlighting the evidence for causation, associations between multiple air pollutants and mental health outcomes, and assesses the challenges of researching this topic. Recent findings: Increasingly rigorous methods are being applied to the investigation of a broader range of mental health outcomes. These methods include basic science, neuroimaging, and observational studies representing diverse geographical locations. Cohort studies with linked high resolution air pollutant exposure data are common, facilitating advanced analytic methods. To date meta-analyses have demonstrated small and significant positive associations between long-term exposure to fine particulate matter and depressive symptoms and cognitive decline. Methodological complexities in measuring exposure and outcome pose ongoing difficulties for the field. Summary: Literature on this topic has recently seen an appreciable expansion. Work that better estimates daily exposure, controls for complex confounders, and is driven by hypotheses founded in candidate causal mechanisms would help clarify associations, and inform targeted interventions and policy makers. |
Issue Date: | May-2022 |
Date of Acceptance: | 14-Dec-2021 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/93442 |
DOI: | 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000771 |
ISSN: | 0951-7367 |
Publisher: | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins |
Start Page: | 192 |
End Page: | 199 |
Journal / Book Title: | Current Opinion in Psychiatry |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 3 |
Copyright Statement: | © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. |
Keywords: | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Psychiatry air pollution environmental pollutant mental health particulate matter urban health LONG-TERM EXPOSURE FINE PARTICULATE MATTER DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER PRENATAL PM2.5 EXPOSURE SOLID-FUEL USE DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS OUTPATIENT VISITS MATERNAL DEPRESSION COGNITIVE FUNCTION Air Pollutants Air Pollution Environmental Exposure Humans Mental Health Particulate Matter Humans Air Pollutants Mental Health Air Pollution Environmental Exposure Particulate Matter 1103 Clinical Sciences 1702 Cognitive Sciences Psychiatry |
Publication Status: | Published |
Online Publication Date: | 2022-05 |
Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Medicine Department of Brain Sciences |