Prenatal Air Pollution Exposure Associated with Impaired Language and Motor
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In premature babies, in addition to delays in speech development, weaker motor skills have also been noted.
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Exposure to air pollution in the uterus is related to a worse development of language and motor skills. Specifically, babies show slower signs of development at 18 months than those exposed to lower levels. The King’s College London study is the first to investigate exposure to pollution and development in Greater London, measuring the language and motor skills of babies whose mothers were pregnant in the capital. Exposure to pollution during th…
The study, published yesterday Wednesday in The Journal of Physiology, is the first to specifically analyze the relationship between pollution and child development in the Greater London area. The research focused on measuring the language and motor skills of infants, crossing these data with the levels of pollutants—mainly nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter—registered in the postal addresses of their mothers during pregnancy. The res…
Air pollution in early pregnancy linked to lower language scores
Exposure to air pollution during the first three months of pregnancy is associated with lower language abilities in toddlers, while preterm infants appear particularly vulnerable to pollution’s impact on motor development, according to a new study. Researchers, led by King’s College London, studied 498 mother-child pairs from Greater London, using modelled air pollution data based on maternal postcodes during pregnancy. Child development was ass…
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