Air pollution can adversely affect the brain and cognitive development in children and adolescents, a new study has warned.
Dispensed medication for psychiatric diagnosis may be related to concentrations of air pollution, researchers at Umea University in Sweden said.
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The researchers studied the correlation between exposure to air pollution in residential areas and for children and teenagers psychiatric health.
The results show that air pollution increases the risk of medication dispensed for at least one psychiatric diagnosis for children and adolescents.
The risk increased by nine percent with 10 microgram per cubic meter increase in the concentration of nitrogen dioxide, even after socioeconomic and demographic factors were taken into account.
