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Motor Vehicle pollution and Childhood Obesity

2018-11-05 23:08:07.967687+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Childhood obesity linked to air pollution from vehicles '

Longitudinal associations of in utero and early life near-roadway air pollution with trajectories of childhood body mass index

A two-standard deviation difference in first year of life near-road freeway NO_x exposure was associated with a 0.1 kg/m² (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.03, 0.2) faster increase in BMI growth per year and a 0.5 kg/m² (95% CI: 0.02, 0.9) higher attained BMI at age 10 years.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-018-0409-7