A new University of Colorado Boulder study shows that infants scored lower on measures of cognition, motor coordination and language skills if their moms were exposed to higher levels of air pollution during mid-to-late pregnancies.
in the journal Environmental Health, is one of the first to find the link between prenatal pollution exposure and brain development in infancy, according to a news release.
Researchers followed 161 “healthy”, Latino mother-infant pairs from southern California who enrolled in the Mother’s Milk Study, according to the release. “Mothers provided histories of where they had lived, and researchers used data from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality System to calculate their exposure to pollutants from roadside traffic, industry, wildfire smoke and other sources during pregnancy,” the release read.
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