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Air pollution and psychological distress during pregnancy
2013-10-08 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Maternal psychological distress combined with exposure to air pollution during pregnancy have an adverse impact on the child's behavioral development, according to researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. The study, which appears in the journal Pediatrics, reports that maternal demoralization, a measure of psychological distress capable of affecting a mother's ability to cope with stressful situations, was linked with a number...
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