Do you know Early exposure to air pollution linked with poor mental health as adult?
Children exposed to air pollution may have an increased chance of developing mental health issues, such as depression.
Early exposure to air pollution linked with poor mental health as adult: Study
New research carried out on children revealed that such individuals could be more prone to feeling depressed and psychotic as youths, ever if exposed to air pollution. The research findings focused on a number of concerns, these include; the behaviour, health and intelligence characteristics of children under the effects of air and noise pollution when they were still in the mother’s womb, early childhood and during their teenage.
Coping with stress was explored in relation to three major mental illnesses: anxiety, depression, and psychosis, which is a condition in which people experience a complete breakdown of reality and can hear voices.
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Researchers at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom discovered that for every 0.72 micrograms per cubic metre increase in PM2.5 pollutants in the air during pregnancy, the chances of developing psychosis increased by 11% and those of developing depression increased by 10%. For the same childhood exposure, the risk of psychosis increased by 9%.
When contending with the same amount of exposure during childhood, there was a nine per cent higher tendency of developing psychosis.
The results have been released in the JAMA Network Open journal According to the experts.
According to a new study conducted for the project, “This is a major concern because exposure to air pollution has become ubiquituous and rates of mental health disorders are rising worldwide.”
That exposure is also preventable which means that measures to reduce exposure like low emissions zones, could help improve mental health, as the study lead, Joanne Newbury from the University of Bristol noted.
Newbery said that that pollution exposure could be decreased considerably if interventions could be availed to specifically target groups that are most susceptible, such as pregnant women and children.
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