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Air pollution Affecting Children's IQ Level

Environmental residence contain the air pollution that can affect the brain development of the fetus. For the first time, researchers in the United States, find the relation between air pollution with low IQ (Intellegent Quotient) in children.

This result is known after the research team from the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health conduct research on 249 children and the mother of each child. The research team before, measure the degree of air pollution that the pregnant women received using air quality monitoring tool. This tool is used during the mother's last period of three months pregnancy.

The mother of a majority of respondents live in the middle to lower regions in the Bronx and Harlem, New York. Generally those living in the area often terkontaminasi with the air pollution from vehicles gas-out kendaraaan. When children enter the age of 5 years, their children are given IQ tests. The result, they often terkontaminasi with the air pollution is still in the womb when the mother, get a value 4-5 times lower than children who are less exposed to air pollution.
"This result shows that the difference is big enough that could impact on the performance of children in school," said Dr. Frederica Perera, the leader of the research.

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