Traffic air pollution slows cognitive development in school kids, reveals new study

A new study has found that higher levels of traffic related to air pollution around schools leads to slower cognitive development in children between seven and 10-year-olds.

The study led by PLOS explained that children who attend highly polluted schools have a slower cognitive development than the ones who go to a less polluted schools, even after adjusting for additional factors that affect cognitive development.

The researcher even confirmed their findings by measuring the traffic related pollutants at schools. The research showed that developing brain might be vulnerable to traffic-related air pollution in middle childhood, so implications are required for the design of air pollution regulations especially around the schools.

The study is published in PLOS Medicine.