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Air Pollution Delivers Smaller Babies
2013-02-06 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Pregnant women who have been exposed to higher levels of some types of air pollution are slightly more likely to give birth to underweight babies, a large international study has found. The results are published online today in Environmental Health Perspectives. Low birth weight defined as a newborn baby weighing less than 2.5 kilograms increases the risk of infant mortality and childhood diseases, and has been associated with developmental and health problems later in life, including diabetes...
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