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Article: Air Pollution reduces foetus size during pregnancy: Study
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- The Hindustan Times
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- January 8, 2008
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Washington, Jan. 8 -- Researchers from Brisbane have given the world yet another reason to curb pollution levels by finding that it plays an important role in shrinking the size of the foetus during pregnancy.
In the study, the research team led by Dr Adrian Barnett, senior research fellow Queensland University of Technology, based at QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, compared the foetus sizes of more than 15,000 ultrasound scans in Brisbane to air pollution levels within a 14km radius of the city.
"The study found that mothers with a higher exposure to air pollution had foetuses that were, on average, ...