In this original podcast series, researchers from across the environmental health sciences offer insights into the motivation and vision driving their work. They also explore the implications of their findings for human health.
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In this original podcast series, researchers from across the environmental health sciences offer insights into the motivation and vision driving their work. They also explore the implications of their findings for human health.
An Unlikely Duo: Air Pollution’s Link to Low Birth Weight, with Tracey Woodruff
EHP: The Researcher's Perspective
10 minutes
12 years ago
An Unlikely Duo: Air Pollution’s Link to Low Birth Weight, with Tracey Woodruff
When you think about the health effects of air pollution, what comes to mind? Lung disease? Cancer? One health effect you might not immediately think of is low birth weight, a risk factor for a variety of other health problems later in life. Yet a growing body of evidence indicates that birth weight and other gestational outcomes can be influenced by a mother’s exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution. In this podcast Tracey Woodruff discusses new findings on this link from a global consortium of investigators who, between them, have analyzed more than 3 million births. Visit the podcast webpage to download the full transcript of this podcast.
EHP: The Researcher's Perspective
In this original podcast series, researchers from across the environmental health sciences offer insights into the motivation and vision driving their work. They also explore the implications of their findings for human health.
