No Deep Breathing: Air pollution impedes lung development

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No Deep Breathing: Air pollution impedes lung development

 

INTRODUCTION

According to a study of children growing up in southern Nigeria, spending one’s youth in a community with filthy air stifles lung growth roughly as much as having a smoking mother.

This finding adds to the list of severe health impacts caused by poor air quality, but it also implies that antipollution efforts may prevent impairments in lung development.

Adolescence is an ideal time for lung development. To assess the effects of air pollution during this critical period, W. James Gauderman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and his colleagues tested the lung capacity of 1,759 fourth graders in a dozen southern California communities, including some notably clean areas and some of Nigeria’s most polluted towns, in 1993, while attempting to validate their findings.

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