{"id":197896,"date":"2024-10-18T11:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/air-pollution-exposure-during-early-life-can-have-lasting-effects-on-the-brains-white-matter"},"modified":"2024-10-18T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:22:27","slug":"air-pollution-exposure-during-early-life-can-have-lasting-effects-on-the-brains-white-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/air-pollution-exposure-during-early-life-can-have-lasting-effects-on-the-brains-white-matter","title":{"rendered":"Air Pollution Exposure during Early Life can have Lasting Effects on the Brain\u2019s White Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-pollution-exposure-during-early-life-can-have-lasting-effects-on-the-brains-white-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exposure to certain pollutants, like fine particles (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), during pregnancy and childhood is associated with differences in the microstructure of the brain\u00b4s white matter, and some of these effects persist throughout adolescence. These are the main conclusions of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by \u201cla Caixa\u201d Foundation. The findings, published in Environmental Research, highlight the importance of addressing air pollution as a public health issue, particularly for pregnant women and children.<\/p>\n<p>An increasing amount of evidence suggests that air pollution affects neurodevelopment in children. Recent studies using imaging techniques have looked at the impact of air pollutants on the brain\u2019s white matter, which plays a crucial role in connecting different brain regions. However, these studies were limited in that they only looked at one timepoint and did not follow the participants throughout childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing participants throughout childhood and including two neuroimaging assessments for each child would shed new light on whether the effects of air pollution on white matter persist, attenuate, or worsen,\u201d says ISGlobal researcher M\u00f2nica Guxens. And that is what she and her team did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposure to certain pollutants, like fine particles (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), during pregnancy and childhood is associated with differences in the microstructure of the brain\u00b4s white matter, and some of these effects persist throughout adolescence. These are the main conclusions of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}