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Childhood exposure to particulate matter and nitrogen oxides and associations with mental health disorders in early adulthood: testing mediation by cognition in a UK longitudinal cohort study.

BMJ Ment Health · 2025 · PMC12496056 · PMID 41033691

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may not be significantno p-value reported
A higher p value for multiple mediators (p<0.15) was chosen to be inclusive of all potential mediators, which can be important when mediators are likely to be multicollinear or to ensure robustness of effect estimation of the a×b path while individual paths (a or b) may not be significant.

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