Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults

Urban-living individuals are exposed to many environmental factors that may combine and interact to influence mental health. While individual factors of an urban environment have been investigated in isolation, no attempt has been made to model how complex, real-life exposure to living in the city r...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature medicine 2023-06, Vol.29 (6), p.1456-1467
Main Authors: Xu, Jiayuan, Liu, Nana, Polemiti, Elli, Garcia-Mondragon, Liliana, Tang, Jie, Liu, Xiaoxuan, Lett, Tristram, Yu, Le, Nöthen, Markus M., Feng, Jianfeng, Yu, Chunshui, Marquand, Andre, Schumann, Gunter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
631/208/205/2138
692/499
Adult
Adults
Air pollution
Air Pollution - adverse effects
Anxiety
Anxiety - epidemiology
Biobanks
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Brain
Cancer Research
Cellular stress response
Cities
Correlation analysis
Emotions
Environmental factors
Genetic factors
Humans
Infectious Diseases
Land pollution
Land use
Mental Health
Metabolic Diseases
Molecular Medicine
Mood Disorders
Neurosciences
Urban areas
Urban environments
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Request full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Urban-living individuals are exposed to many environmental factors that may combine and interact to influence mental health. While individual factors of an urban environment have been investigated in isolation, no attempt has been made to model how complex, real-life exposure to living in the city relates to brain and mental health, and how this is moderated by genetic factors. Using the data of 156,075 participants from the UK Biobank, we carried out sparse canonical correlation analyses to investigate the relationships between urban environments and psychiatric symptoms. We found an environmental profile of social deprivation, air pollution, street network and urban land-use density that was positively correlated with an affective symptom group ( r  = 0.22, P perm  
ISSN:1078-8956
1546-170X
DOI:10.1038/s41591-023-02365-w