ArticleNature. Mental health2024
Wildfires are associated with increased emergency department visits for anxiety disorders in the western United States.
Article in Nature. Mental health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Mental Health Impacts of Wildfire Exposure: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Evidence.Current environmental health reports · 2026Article
- Assessing the Evidence for Differential Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke Across Fires and Populations: A Critical Review of Recent Studies.Current environmental health reports · 2026Review
- The Effect of Wildfire Exposure: Neurological Outcomes, Mental Health, and Epigenetic Insights.Genes · 2026Review
- The 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires and Outpatient Acute Health Care Utilization.JAMA health forum · 2025Article
- Fire Smoke Elevated the Carbonaceous PMEnvironmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Fine Particulate Matter From 2020 California Wildfires and Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2025Article
- Perceptions of and Responses to Wildfire Smoke Among New York State Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- A holistic approach to climate change in the emergency department: Direct impact of environmental factors on patients.Turkish journal of emergency medicineReview
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Abstract
As wildfires increasingly impact the global economy and public health, understanding their effects is crucial. Particularly, the relationship between wildfires and anxiety disorders remains unclear. In this study, we explore this association by analyzing 1,897,865 emergency department visits for anxiety disorders in the western United States. We examined records from 2007 to 2018, using a case-crossover design and conditional logistic regression to assess the impact of wildfire-related exposures on these visits. Here we show that exposure to wildfire smoke
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