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Weather and Air Pollution Not Linked to Suicide Attempts in Turkish City

by GLOOM

MHD card showing a hazy city skyline at dusk under a sun on a seasonal temperature arc and a 12-month calendar wheel, illustrating a Turkish study in which daily weather and air pollution were not linked to suicide-attempt visits.

Daily weather and air pollution were not linked to suicide-attempt visits at a hospital in Balikesir, Turkey, according to an 8-year study of 1,413 emergency presentations from 2017 to 2024. Visits did follow a seasonal rhythm, peaking in spring, June and December.1 Research Highlights No short-term environmental link: temperature, rainfall, sunlight, fine particles (PM2.5), sulfur …

Prenatal PM2.5 Linked to Autism-Relevant Newborn Amino Acid Metabolism

by GLOOM

MHD featured image for prenatal air pollution, newborn metabolomics, and autism risk.

A matched case-control study of 50 children with autism spectrum disorder and 50 controls found that newborn amino acid metabolism overlapped with both later autism diagnosis and prenatal air-pollution exposure.1 The central pathway, aspartate and asparagine metabolism, was associated with autism (p = 0.01), pregnancy PM2.5 (p < 0.001), first-trimester PM2.5 (p < 0.001), and …