DIRTY AIR, LOWER IQ Kids who live in neighborhoods with heavy traffic pollution have lower IQ’s and score worse on other tests of
intelligence and memory than children who breathe cleaner air, a new
study shows.
The effect of pollution on intelligence was similar to that seen in children whose mothers smoked 10 cigarettes a day while pregnant, or in
Kids who have been exposed to lead, Dr. Shakira Franco Suglia of the Harvard School Public Health in Boston, the study’s
lead author to told Reuters Health.
When the researchers adjusted for the effects of parents’ education, language spoken at home, birth weight, and exposure to tobacco smoke, the association remain.
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