ArticlePloS one2018
Modeling the effects of atmospheric pressure on suicide rates in the USA using geographically weighted regression.
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- Association of short-term ambient environmental exposures with suicide and drug overdose deaths among U.S. veterans.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- State-level suicide mortality insights: a comparative study of VHA veterans and the whole US population.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Weather Conditions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Women's mood at high altitude. sexual dimorphism in hypoxic stress modulation by the tryptophan-melatonin axis.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- Temporal patterns of suicide and circulatory system disease-related mortality are inversely correlated in several countries.BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- The spatial non-stationary effect of urban landscape pattern on urban waterlogging: a case study of Shenzhen City.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Explaining the Inverse Association between Altitude and Obesity.Journal of obesity · 2020Article
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Abstract
Low atmospheric pressure may increase depression and suicide through inducing hypoxia. Previous studies have not evaluated the geographic variation of this relationship across the United States. Analyses were based on three groupings of age-adjusted completed suicide rates (all suicide, firearm-related suicide, non-firearm-related suicide) from 2286 counties in the United States. Multiple regression was used to determine the overall relationship between atmospheric pressure and completed suicide rates. Geographically weighted regression (GWR) models were used to obtain local coefficient estimates. A negative correlation between atmospheric pressure and completed suicide rates was observed for all three suicide groupings (p-value <0.0001). Significant, negative GWR coefficient estimates were located in the West and Northeast for the all suicides and firearm-related suicides, and in the Midwest for non-firearm-related suicides.
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