The outcome of the paper published in the UK-based journal states that air pollution from road traffic is affecting the foetal growth
As smog engulfed the national Capital on Wednesday, again, and the air quality dropped to 'very poor' pointing 400 AQI on the scale, city doctors, in alignment with a paper published in British Medical Journal, talked about the consequences of air pollution on birth weight. The outcome of the paper published in the UK-based journal states that air pollution from road traffic is affecting the foetal growth.
"Pollution from vehicular traffic, in particular, releases gases which directly affect the growth of a foetus' sensitive organs like the brain and the heart," says Dr SP Byotra, Head of Department of Internal Medicine, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital."In urban settings, children and pregnant women suffer due to the bad air quality caused by emissions from traffic," he adds.
Another 2017 study published in the Journal of Pediatrics shared their findings that women's exposure to air pollution before conception causes an increased risk of birth defects in children. This birth data, taken from Ohio Department of Health, and particulate matter data from US Environmental Protection Agency's 57 monitoring stations, studied the impact on children's development by linking geographic coordinates of mothers with the station.
The Ohio study, holds weight in the current smog scenario in Delhi as it confirms the association between air pollution and birth defects. It suggests that the most susceptible time where women's exposure to air pollution-related birth-defects is a month before and after conception. The children affected by this may be born with a cleft lip or a palate or abnormal hearts.
"All the Nitrogen and small particles released from the vehicles is inhaled by us and travel to our bloodstream, and thus to the entire system. It affects all organs. In case of a pregnant woman, these particles may also travel to the foetus through the placenta and affect growth or cause defects," Dr Vikas Maurya, Senior Consultant, Pulmonologist, Fortis Healthcare said."It is strange that other countries are doing such research work despite good air quality, while we see this as 'new awareness'," he adds.
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