Jordi Sunyer
Researcher at ISGlobal and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona
ALSPAC (The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) is one of the best prospective cohort studies from early pregnancy to adulthood in the world.
The study confirms evidence on the effect of urban pollution on psychosis and depression, previously observed in adults, children and young people. And it shows, in one of the first times, a role of noise in childhood and youth on anxiety at these stages.
Further studies in which the measurement of psychiatric disorders and of pollution and noise are more valid are needed to confirm these results, as well as studies in other areas to show that they are not unique to the south of England.