Ambient sulfur dioxide and female ED visits for depression

作者：Szyszkowicz Mieczyslaw^*

来源：Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, 2011, 4(3-4): 259-262.

DOI：10.1007/s11869-010-0081-8

• Age
• Depression
• Emergency department
• Female
• Urban

In clinical practice, comorbidity of depression, heart diseases, migraine, ischemic stroke, epilepsy, and seizures has been observed. By an analogy, it is expected that such comorbidity will be mapped on the similarity in associations between ambient air pollution and these health conditions. For female patients, associations between sulfur dioxide exposure and migraine, ischemic stroke, and depression were reported. This study examined associations between daily levels of sulfur dioxide and emergency department visits for depression in Toronto, Canada, for the period of April 1, 1999-March 31, 2002. The case-crossover technique was used to estimate odds ratios (OR) and their respective 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) and these values were reported for an increase in the inter-quartile range (IQR, IQR=3.9 ppb). For patients of 35 years of age and older, the OR=1.27 (95% CI: 1.10, 1.47) for the same-day exposure.

• 出版日期2011-12