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Short-term ambient ozone exposure increases the risk of hospitalization with depression: a multi-city time-stratified
Xi Gao1,2, Jia Li3, Xueli Zhang4
1HEOA Group, School of Public Health, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.
Background:
Depression, the most common mental illness worldwide, has been studied and air pollution has been found to increase the risk of depression hospitalization, but research results on ozone (O3) remain limited. In this context, we investigated the relationship between short-term O3 exposure and depression-related hospital admissions (HAs).
Methods:
The 10,459 records of HAs for depression from medical institutions across in 9 cities, China, were collected between 1 January 2017, and 31 December 2018. Air pollutants and meteorological data was obtained from provincial ecological environment monitoring stations in the study area. Conditional Poisson regression was employed to estimate the association between O3 and hospitalizations for depression, with data stratification by sex, age, weather, and economic level.
Results:
Short-term O3 exposure was positively associated with the number of depression-related hospitalizations (Relative risk: 1.04 [95% CI: 1.02, 1.05]). O3 had a significant effect on the risk of depression-related hospitalizations on warm days (P = 0.021, Relative risk: 1.05 [1.03, 1.08]). The high gross domestic product group was more likely to be affected by O3 exposure-associated depression-related hospitalizations (P = 0.005, Relative risk: 1.03 [1.01, 1.05]).
Conclusions:
Short-term changes to O3 exposure may increase the risk of depression related hospitalizations, especially on warm days.
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