Air pollution, traffic noise, mental health, and cognitive development: A multi-exposure longitudinal study of London adolescents in the SCAMP cohort.

Adolescence Air pollution Cognition Mental health Public health Traffic noise

Journal

Environment international
ISSN: 1873-6750
Titre abrégé: Environ Int
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7807270

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
18 Aug 2024
Historique:
received: 05 06 2024
revised: 14 08 2024
accepted: 16 08 2024
medline: 7 9 2024
pubmed: 7 9 2024
entrez: 6 9 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

There is increasing evidence that air pollution and noise may have detrimental psychological impacts, but there are few studies evaluating adolescents, ground-level ozone exposure, multi-exposure models, or metrics beyond outdoor residential exposure. This study aimed to address these gaps. Annual air pollution and traffic noise exposure at home and school were modelled for adolescents in the Greater London SCAMP cohort (N=7555). Indoor, outdoor and hybrid environments were modelled for air pollution. Cognitive and mental health measures were self-completed at two timepoints (baseline aged 11-12 and follow-up aged 13-15). Associations were modelled using multi-level multivariate linear or ordinal logistic regression. This is the first study to investigate ground-level ozone exposure in relation to adolescent executive functioning, finding that a 1 interquartile range increase in outdoor ozone corresponded to -0.06 (p < 0.001) z-score between baseline and follow-up, 38 % less improvement than average (median development + 0.16). Exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO Ozone's potentially detrimental effects on adolescent cognition have been overlooked in the literature. Our findings also suggest harmful impacts of other air pollutants and noise on mental health. Further research should attempt to replicate these findings and use mechanistic enquiry to enhance causal inference. Policy makers should carefully consider how to manage the public health impacts of ozone, as efforts to reduce other air pollutants such as NO

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
There is increasing evidence that air pollution and noise may have detrimental psychological impacts, but there are few studies evaluating adolescents, ground-level ozone exposure, multi-exposure models, or metrics beyond outdoor residential exposure. This study aimed to address these gaps.
METHODS METHODS
Annual air pollution and traffic noise exposure at home and school were modelled for adolescents in the Greater London SCAMP cohort (N=7555). Indoor, outdoor and hybrid environments were modelled for air pollution. Cognitive and mental health measures were self-completed at two timepoints (baseline aged 11-12 and follow-up aged 13-15). Associations were modelled using multi-level multivariate linear or ordinal logistic regression.
RESULTS RESULTS
This is the first study to investigate ground-level ozone exposure in relation to adolescent executive functioning, finding that a 1 interquartile range increase in outdoor ozone corresponded to -0.06 (p < 0.001) z-score between baseline and follow-up, 38 % less improvement than average (median development + 0.16). Exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
Ozone's potentially detrimental effects on adolescent cognition have been overlooked in the literature. Our findings also suggest harmful impacts of other air pollutants and noise on mental health. Further research should attempt to replicate these findings and use mechanistic enquiry to enhance causal inference. Policy makers should carefully consider how to manage the public health impacts of ozone, as efforts to reduce other air pollutants such as NO

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2024.108963 PMID: 39241332
pubmed: 39241332
pii: S0160-4120(24)00549-X
doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2024.108963
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doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

108963

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Rhiannon Thompson (R)

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; NIHR School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR), England, UK; MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK.

Gregor Stewart (G)

MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK.

Tuan Vu (T)

MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK.

Calvin Jephcote (C)

Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability & School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

Shanon Lim (S)

MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK; Pattle Delamore Partners Limited, New Zealand.

Benjamin Barratt (B)

MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK; Mohn Centre for Children's Health and Wellbeing, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; NIHR HPRU in Environmental Exposures and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK.

Rachel B Smith (RB)

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; Mohn Centre for Children's Health and Wellbeing, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; NIHR HPRU in Environmental Exposures and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; NIHR HPRU in Chemical and Radiation Threats and Hazards, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK.

Yasmin Bou Karim (YB)

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK.

Aamirah Mussa (A)

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK.

Ian Mudway (I)

MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK; NIHR HPRU in Environmental Exposures and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; NIHR HPRU in Chemical and Radiation Threats and Hazards, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK.

Helen L Fisher (HL)

Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK; ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, King's College London, London, UK.

Iroise Dumontheil (I)

Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK; Centre for Educational Neuroscience, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Michael S C Thomas (MSC)

Centre for Educational Neuroscience, Birkbeck, University of London, UK; Developmental Neurocognition Laboratory, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, 3 Quantinuum, UK.

John Gulliver (J)

Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability & School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; NIHR HPRU in Environmental Exposures and Health at the University of Leicester, UK.

Sean Beevers (S)

MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK; NIHR HPRU in Environmental Exposures and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK.

Frank J Kelly (FJ)

MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK; NIHR HPRU in Environmental Exposures and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK.

Mireille B Toledano (MB)

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; Mohn Centre for Children's Health and Wellbeing, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; NIHR HPRU in Environmental Exposures and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; NIHR HPRU in Chemical and Radiation Threats and Hazards, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK. Electronic address: m.toledano@imperial.ac.uk.

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