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Nighttime lights, urban features, household poverty, depression, and obesity

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ID21624976
AuthorsYi-An Liao (0000-0003-3812-0609, King's College London), Liliana Garcia Mondragon (0000-0003-0141-6094, King's College London), Liliana Garcia-Mondragon, Deniz Konac (0000-0002-0121-1067, King's College London), Xiaoxuan Liu (0000-0002-1426-5056, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Alex Ing (0000-0002-5931-6697, European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Ran Goldblatt (0000-0001-7792-9510, New Light Industries (United States)), Le Yu (0000-0003-3115-2042, Ministry of Education), Edward D Barker (0000-0002-9914-8958, King's College London, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume42
Issue18
Pages15453-15464
Publication date2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1046-1310 • E-ISSN: 1936-4733
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s12144-022-02754-3
PMID35194360
OpenAlexW4212830077
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited54

Nighttime Light Emission (NLE) is associated with diminished mental and physical health. The present study examines how NLE and associated urban features (e.g., air pollution, low green space) impact mental and physical wellbeing. We included 200,393 UK Biobank Cohort participants with complete data. The study was carried out in two steps. In Step1, we assessed the relationship between NLE, deprivation, pollution, green space, household poverty and mental and physical symptoms. In Step2, we examined the role of NLE on environment-symptom networks. We stratified participants into high and low NLE and used gaussian graphical model to identify nodes which bridged urban features and mental and physical health problems. We then compared the global strength of these networks in high vs low NLE. We found that higher NLE associated with higher air pollution, less green space, higher economic and neighborhood deprivation, higher household poverty and higher depressed mood, higher tiredness/lethargy and obesity (R training_mean = 0.2624, P training_mean test_mean = 0.2619, P test_mean P

Cohort · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Mental health · Obesity · Poverty · Psychiatry · Waist · Circadian rhythm and melatonin · Demography · Impact of Light on Environment and Health · Medicine · Psychology · Urban Green Space and Health · Gerontology

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