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. 2023 Mar 29;131(3):037013. doi: 10.1289/EHP11587

Table 3.

HR (95% CI) per 10-dB increase in Lden, 10-μg/m3 increase in PM2.5, and 0.1 increase per 0.1 NDVI for death by intentional self-harm, in mutually adjusted models.

All intentional self-harm (ICD-10: X60–84, excluding X61.8, X61.9 and X81–82; N cases=11,265) Poisoning (X60–69) Hanging (X70) Firearms (X72–75) Jumping (X80)
All (n=11,265) Male (n=8,476) Female (n=2,789) Age 15–30 y (n=1,508) Age >3065 y (n=7,240) Age >65 (n=2,517) All (n=1,178) All (n=3,755) All (n=3,236) All (n=1,651)
Road traffic noise 1.040 (1.015, 1.065)a 1.034 (1.006, 1.063) 1.058 (1.007, 1.112) 1.079 (1.011, 1.152) 1.05 (1.019, 1.082) 0.994 (0.944, 1.046) 1.106 (1.025, 1.193) 1.060 (1.017, 1.105) 1.007 (0.963, 1.053) 1.009 (0.964, 1.055)
Railway noise 1.022 (1.004, 1.041)b 1.021 (1.000, 1.043) 1.028 (0.992, 1.066) 0.982 (0.934, 1.032) 1.027 (1.004, 1.051) 1.037 (0.998, 1.077) 1.053 (0.997, 1.111) 1.006 (0.974, 1.039) 1.014 (0.980, 1.050) 1.015 (0.98, 1.051)
Aircraft noise 0.997 (0.965, 1.029) 0.995 (0.959, 1.032) 1.005 (0.943, 1.071) 0.983 (0.901, 1.072) 1.015 (0.976, 1.056) 0.950 (0.887, 1.017) 0.994 (0.902, 1.094) 0.970 (0.917, 1.027) 0.989 (0.933, 1.049) 0.991 (0.935, 1.051)
PM2.5 0.900 (0.811, 0.998) 0.899 (0.798, 1.012) 0.918 (0.74, 1.137) 0.978 (0.734, 1.303) 0.882 (0.776, 1.002) 0.915 (0.729, 1.149) 0.943 (0.671, 1.324) 0.913 (0.767, 1.086) 0.961 (0.792, 1.167) 0.906 (0.745, 1.101)
NDVI 0.999 (0.978, 1.020) 1.016 (0.992, 1.041) 0.946 (0.908, 0.986) 1.002 (0.948, 1.058) 0.986 (0.961, 1.012) 1.036 (0.991, 1.084) 0.923 (0.868, 0.982) 1.042 (1.005, 1.081) 1.051 (1.009, 1.094) 1.048 (1.007, 1.091)

Note: Results from main model (M3) including noise exposures (road traffic noise, railway noise, and aircraft noise), PM2.5 exposure, NDVI within 500 m around the residence, age as timescale, sex as strata, individual sociodemographic covariates (civil status, education, mother tongue, nationality, urbanization, local SEP) and area covariates (area SEP-Index and unemployment rate). CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio; Lden, day-evening-night level; NDVI, normalized difference vegetation index.

The E-value is a measure for the minimum strength of association that an unmeasured confounder would need to have with both the exposure and the outcome, conditional on the measured covariates, to fully explain the observed exposure–outcome association.

a

E-Value for point estimate = 1.24.

b

E-Value for point estimate = 1.17.