Air pollution can affect brain development
Mongolia: Terrible harms of air pollution continue to surface and it is now known that polluted air inside and around the house can affect the development of children in particular. Negative effects on brain development can be reduced by clearing this atmosphere.
Scientists at Simon Fraser University, in collaboration with Mongolian scientists, have conducted a number of experiments on the installation of air filters in women’s homes during pregnancy and its effects on mother and child. This is also the first experience of the negative effects of air pollution on newborns.
The test, which began in 2014, recruited a total of 540 pregnant women from Ulan Bator, Mongolia. According to the World Health Organization, Ulan Bator is one of the most polluted places in the world.
All of the women in the study were smoking-free and less than 18 weeks pregnant, and their homes were never fitted with air filters. They were included in the randomly filtered and unfiltered group. One group of women was given one or two standard filters and encouraged to use them until the baby was born, and the filters were removed after the birth.
All newborns were then subjected to an IQ test for four years. This is called a full scale IQ (FSIQ). It was found that the FSIQ of children who grew up in a filter was 2.8 points higher than that of children who went through a pregnancy without a filter.
Combined with other research from the past, these findings further highlight the psychological benefits of clean air and the environment. This clearly means that reducing air pollution and polluted air can have obvious benefits and can benefit generations.
Another important point is that in the environment of the filter, the children growing up in the womb also had a tendency to understand the words which is called verbal comprehension index score.
Ninety percent of the world’s population, including in Pakistan’s densely populated cities, is forced to breathe in unsafe and polluted air. On the one hand, it is causing diseases of the heart, lungs and other organs, on the other hand, it is also affecting the brain development.
