Study Links Air Pollution To Premature Births
by Earth 911 on August 24th, 2007
Environmental News Network features the results of a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) study of over 2,500 pregnant women from 2003, which shows that those who lived in areas with more concentrated levels of carbon monoxide were 10 to 25 percent more likely to have a premature birth.
The subjects were all interviewed to make sure that other factors weren’t at play, such as access to secondhand smoke or alcohol. UCLA already issued a report linking air pollution to heart defects in newborns.
It’s fitting that both these studies were conducted at UCLA, given that Los Angeles ranks as the most polluted city in the United States. For more information on air quality, visit Earth 911’s Air Quality page.
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