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Air pollution can cause a variety of health problems, from cancer to cardiovascular disease. But according to a new European study, air pollution can also harm human beings who haven’t even been born yet.
The research, which comes from the Respiratory Health in Northern Europe (RHINE) study and is being presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Milan this week, looked at more than 4,000 kids and their mothers living in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Estonia. It examined the impacts of five pollutants: nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone, black carbon (BC), and two types of particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10).
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