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June 18 News: Autism Is Twice As Likely In Children Living Near High Air Pollution Areas
By Ryan Koronowski on Jun 18, 2013 at 9:56 am
June 18 News: Autism Is Twice As Likely In Children Living Near High Air Pollution Areas | ThinkProgress
This is a real reason to go over to renewables. Coal and oil smog maybe the cause... This is a solid reason to go over to wind, solar, wave, hydro, nuclear, etc. This problem is becoming a real problem within our society.
This is no longer about global warming my conservative friends.
By Ryan Koronowski on Jun 18, 2013 at 9:56 am
June 18 News: Autism Is Twice As Likely In Children Living Near High Air Pollution Areas | ThinkProgress
The largest study to date that examines the link between air pollution and autism found that women living in high-pollution areas were twice as likely to have a child with the disorder. [Bloomberg]
Researchers seeking the roots of autism have linked the disorder to chemicals in air pollution and, in a separate study, found that language difficulties of the disorder may be due to a disconnect in brain wiring.
Researchers from Harvard Universitys School of Public Health found that pregnant women exposed to high levels of diesel particulates or mercury were twice as likely to have an autistic child compared with peers in low-pollution areas. The findings, published today in Environmental Health Perspectives, are from the largest U.S. study to examine the ties between air pollution and autism.
The link to air pollution was initially made in 2006 by a group led by Gayle Windham at the California Department of Health Services. Another study, published in November 2012, also found links between air pollution and autism.
People were skeptical of the initial report from Windhams group, said Marc Weisskopf, an author of todays study and an associate professor of environmental health and epidemiology at Harvard Universitys School of Public Health in Boston. I went to do this in a larger setting, not at all convinced we would see anything.
This is a real reason to go over to renewables. Coal and oil smog maybe the cause... This is a solid reason to go over to wind, solar, wave, hydro, nuclear, etc. This problem is becoming a real problem within our society.
This is no longer about global warming my conservative friends.