Scientists for the effect of air quality in unborn children study
Contact: Kim Carlyle 706-583-0913 kcarlyleuga.edu University of Georgia, a pregnant woman in the street in a big city. I do not know, but she is breathing the air can be bad for your unborn baby. Recent studies in many countries, scientists suspect a link between exposure to environmental problems and health as prematurity, low birth weight, poor fetal development and mortality of air, Lucas Naeher, said epidemiologist environment the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.Scientists know that air pollution in large cities can aggravate or cause health problems in children and adults. But how can affect a child in a womb? Naeher answer to this question. In the summer of 2002, has studied more closely the personal exposure to air pollution
of 45 pregnant women in Trujillo, Peru. His co-researcher Manuel Aguilar Villalobos, was director of the Asociación de Aire Ambient in Lima, Peru. Based on this research, the American Chemistry Council Naeher $ 100,000 grant to expand its research in very good Trujillo.Closer measure personal exposure to pollution in 100 pregnant women Trujillo (50 and 50 in urban areas) during pregnancy. He and his team measured the levels of air pollution in the homes of pregnant women in urban and rural areas. The team collected blood and urine of women during pregnancy and postdeliveries. And theyll take samples of meconium, the first chair of a child, and umbilical cord blood of newborns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed samples.
This study will help us
understand the scope and possible effects of prenatal exposure to a range of environmental contaminants, said Naeher. Trujillo is a city of about 750,000 people in developing countries. It has an air pollution than most cities in the United States. Peruvian standards and regulations on emissions from motor vehicles, the main cause of air pollution are weakly enforced. And they are 30 years behind the United States, he websitePages: [1] 2