Air pollution affects young people's psychiatric health

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uu-apa060816.php

Public Release: 8-Jun-2016
Air pollution affects young people's psychiatric health
Umea University

New research from Umeå University in Sweden indicates that dispensed medication for psychiatric diagnosis can be related to air pollution concentrations. The study covers a large part of the Swedish population and has been published in the journal BMJ Open.

More and more studies show that the brain and human cognitive development are affected by pollution.

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he results show that air pollution increased the risk of having dispensed medication for at least one psychiatric diagnosis for children and adolescents, the risk increased with 9% with a 10 microgram per cubic meter increased concentration of nitrogen dioxide even after socioeconomic and demographic factors were taken into account.

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