Women breathing high levels of air pollution during last month of pregnancy more likely to give birth to babies with much lower birth weight

Women breathing high levels of air pollution during the last month of pregnancy are more likely than unexposed women to give birth to babies with a significantly lower birth weight, according to a study of the effects the air-quality controls introduced during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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