A growing number of studies are pointing to a link between exposure to air pollution and mental health disorders across age groups.
Research to-date has mainly focused on air pollution affects among adults, and now a new set of studies conducted by scientists from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati have found a similar connection among children.
The first study found that short-term exposure to air pollution worsened psychiatric disorders in children between one and two days later, as measured by increased patient intake at the Cincinnati Children’s emergency department for psychiatric disorders over a five-year period. The study analyzed data from just over 6,800 children during 13,176 psychiatric emergency department visits.
