An Unlikely Duo: Air Pollution’s Link to Low Birth Weight, with Tracey Woodruff
EHP: The Researcher's Perspective
English - February 01, 2013 05:00 - 10 minutes - 7.31 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNatural Sciences Science environmental health science natural sciences raleigh Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When you think about the health effects of air pollution, what comes to mind? Lung disease? Cancer? One health effect you might not immediately think of is low birth weight, a risk factor for a variety of other health problems later in life. Yet a growing body of evidence indicates that birth weight and other gestational outcomes can be influenced by a mother’s exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution. In this podcast Tracey Woodruff discusses new findings on this link from a global consortium of investigators who, between them, have analyzed more than 3 million births. Visit the podcast webpage to download the full transcript of this podcast.