ApocaDocs: Utah Suicides Linked to Air Pollution

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Posted Fri Feb 20 2015: from LiveScience:


	Utah Suicides Linked to Air Pollution http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1424471493 Suicide may be linked to air pollution, according to new research that finds spikes in completed suicides in the days following peak pollution levels. The research took place in Utah, part of the United States' western "suicide belt." Suicide is the 10th-leading cause of death in the United States; in Utah, it is the eighth. Though the notion that suicide and air quality could be linked may not seem intuitive, similar studies in South Korea, Taiwan and Canada have also linked the two.... They found that suicide risk went up two to three days after levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide rose.

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