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Reported association of air pollution and suicide rate could be confounded

A statistical association between ambient air pollution and suicide mortality has been recently reported in Environmental Health, which seems not to be scientifically supported by their data. In this article, very low (unrealistic) suicide rate is reported, which is subjected to selection bias. Thei...

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Autor principal: Afshari, R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5331675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28245827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0219-3
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description A statistical association between ambient air pollution and suicide mortality has been recently reported in Environmental Health, which seems not to be scientifically supported by their data. In this article, very low (unrealistic) suicide rate is reported, which is subjected to selection bias. Their justification is also flawed as high exposure to ambient air pollution in rural areas is lower as compared to urban residents. Weekends, holidays, time of death … are also both air pollution and suicide rate related. Reported statistical association of air pollution and suicide in this study is heavily confound. Please see article under discussion: https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-016-0177-1.
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spelling pubmed-53316752017-03-06 Reported association of air pollution and suicide rate could be confounded Afshari, R. Environ Health Letter to the Editor A statistical association between ambient air pollution and suicide mortality has been recently reported in Environmental Health, which seems not to be scientifically supported by their data. In this article, very low (unrealistic) suicide rate is reported, which is subjected to selection bias. Their justification is also flawed as high exposure to ambient air pollution in rural areas is lower as compared to urban residents. Weekends, holidays, time of death … are also both air pollution and suicide rate related. Reported statistical association of air pollution and suicide in this study is heavily confound. Please see article under discussion: https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-016-0177-1. BioMed Central 2017-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5331675/ /pubmed/28245827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0219-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Reported association of air pollution and suicide rate could be confounded
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5331675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28245827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0219-3
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