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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A recent study from a team of University of Utah researchers has found that higher temperatures and air pollution are linked to an increased suicide risk in the short term. These results offer some insights into improving mental health, as suicide is one of the leading causes of death in Utah.
Amanda Bakian, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Utah, said that she and her team did a study in 2015 that found that there is a relationship between increasing air pollution and suicide, and that gave them more questions, which eventually led to this study…