Environmental Contaminants Affects Unborn Baby

Environmental Contaminants Affects Unborn Baby.
A abounding woman's laying open to environmental contaminants affects her unborn baby's heart rate and movement, a new about says in June 2013. "Both fetal motor activity and heart rate communicate how the fetus is maturing and give us a way to evaluate how exposures may be affecting the developing nervous system," boning up lead author Janet DiPietro, associate dean for research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said in a style news release. The researchers analyzed blood samples from 50 high- and low-income fertile women in and around Baltimore and found that they all had detectable levels of organochlorines, including DDT, PCBs and other pesticides that have been banned in the United States for more than 30 years.

High-income women had a greater concentration of chemicals than low-income women. The blood samples were cool at 36 weeks of pregnancy, and measurements of fetal nerve evaluate and movement also were taken at that time, according to the study, which was published online in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 2013.