Long-Term Particulate Matter Exposure and Onset of Depression in Middle-Aged Men and Women.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Long-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution is associated with all-cause mortality and adverse cognitive outcomes, but the association with developing depression remains inconsistent. OBJECTIVE:Our goal was to evaluate the prospective association between PM air pollution and developing depression assessed using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale. METHODS:Subjects were drawn from a prospective cohort study of 123,045 men and women free of depressive symptoms at baseline who attended regular screening exams in Seoul and Suwon, South Korea, from 2011 to 2015. Exposure to PM with an aerodynamic diameter of [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], respectively) was estimated using a land-use regression model based

SUBMITTER: Zhang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6792358 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature