Associations of short-term exposure to air pollution and increased ambient temperature with psychiatric hospital admissions in older adults in the USA: a case-crossover study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the associations between ambient environmental exposures and the risk of acute episodes of psychiatric disorders. We aimed to estimate the link between short-term exposure to atmospheric pollutants, temperature, and acute psychiatric hospital admissions in adults aged 65 years and older in the USA.

Methods

For this study, we included all people (aged ≥65 years) enrolled in the Medicare programme in the USA who had an emergency or urgent hospital admission for a psychiatric disorder recorded between Jan 31, 2000, and Dec 31, 2016. We applied a case-crossover design to study the associations between short-term exposure to air pollution (fine particulate matter [PM_2·5], ozone, and nitrogen dioxide [NO₂]), ambient temperatur

SUBMITTER: Qiu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9044858 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature