NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Living in crowded, highly polluted cities increases the risk of many mental illnesses, according to a recent study by researchers at King's College London.
In this unprecedented study, the researchers confirmed that mental disorders, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, mental health problems and suicide attempts, would arise from living in a contaminated city.
According to the Daily Mail, the study included 2232 children, born in England and Wales, who were assessed as psychosocial interviews at the age of 18.
In the analysis of data, the researchers used a list of estimates of air pollution in all cities of Britain to find that mental disorders were more common in urban areas. Exposure to NO2, NOx, and very small molecular materials (PM2.5) ) Top.
This study comes amid estimates that 70% of the world's population will live in cities by 2050.