Depressed? Anxious? Air pollution may be a factor

Published: Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 1:06 pm

Depressed? Anxious? Air pollution may be a factor
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Jim Robbins, KFF Health News
Published:
May 6, 2023, 6:06am
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A digital illustration in watercolor and pencil shows a human with a melancholy expression at the center of the image. Their head is encircled by air pollution that billows up from surrounding smoke stacks. The background depicts a city at night. (Oona Tempest/KFF Health News Illustration/TNS)
In the 1990s, residents of Mexico City noticed their dogs acting strangely some didnt recognize their owners, and the animals sleep patterns had changed.
At the time, the sprawling, mountain-ringed city of more than 15 million people was known as the most polluted in the world, with a thick, constant haze of fossil fuel pollution trapped by thermal inversions.
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