Air Pollution and Emergency Department Visits for Suicide Attempts in Vancouver, Canada | Zendy

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Air Pollution and Emergency Department Visits for Suicide Attempts in Vancouver, Canada

Author(s) -

Mieczystaw Szyszkowicz,

Jeff B. Willey,

Eric Grafstein,

Brian H. Rowe,

Ian Colman

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

environmental health insights

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575

H-Index - 20

ISSN - 1178-6302

DOI - 10.4137/ehi.s5662

Subject(s) - emergency department , air pollution , medicine , asthma , odds ratio , depression (economics) , demography , poisson regression , environmental health , names of the days of the week , population , psychiatry , chemistry , organic chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , sociology , economics , macroeconomics

Comorbidity of depression, heart disease, and migraine has been observed in clinical practice, while ambient air pollution has been identified among different risk factors for these health conditions. Suicide attempts and ideations as the result of depression may be linked to air pollution exposure. Therefore the effects of ambient air pollution on emergency department (ED) visits for suicide attempts were investigated.

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