NIH study links air pollution to increase in newborn intensive care admissions
(WorldNews Environment)

News Release Friday, July 19, 2019 Infants born to women exposed to high levels of air pollution in the week before delivery are more likely to be admitted to a newborn intensive care unit (NICU), suggests an analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. Depending on the type of pollution, chances for NICU admission increased from about 4% to as much as 147%, compared to infants whose mothers did not encounter high levels of air pollution during the week before delivery. The study was led by Pauline Mendola, Ph.D., of the Epidemiology Branch at NIH`s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. It appears in Annals of Epidemiology....