According to new research, exposure to air pollution in pregnancy could affect cognitive function of children by causing structural changes to the brain.
New European research has found that exposure to air pollution while pregnant could change the structure of the brain in children, affecting cognitive function .
Carried out by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in Spain and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands, the research looked at a cohort of pregnant women in the Netherlands and followed the 783 children from foetal life until school age.
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