Scientists looked at psychiatric children's hospital admissions in an Ohio city to investigate the link.
Scientists have added to growing evidence linking air pollution to poor health, showing it appears to worsen mental problems in children.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati looked at admissions to the Cincinnati Children's emergency psychiatric department between 2011 and 2015 to see if there was an association with levels of air pollution. During this period, a total of 6,812 children, aged 14 on average, who lived in Ohio's Hamilton County made 13,176 visits to the hospital. The team used the children's addresses to estimate the amount of what is known as"particulate matter 2.5" they might have encountered in the days before they arrived at ER.
of these fine particles measuring around 2.5 micrometers include vehicles, cooking, dust and chemical reactions in the atmosphere.Overall, in the three days following a spike of 10squared the hospital saw more children attend the psychiatric emergency department. PM 2.5 appeared to exacerbate adjustment disorder and suicidality in particular.
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