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Dirty air is linked to smaller babies across huge swathes of Asia and Africa

Exposure to high levels of ozone causes mothers in low- and middle-income countries to give birth to infants with a low birth weight.
A nurse weighs a newborn baby at Bhadson Community Health Centre, April 12, 2023 in Patiala, India.

A newborn baby is assessed at a health centre in India, where high ozone levels have been linked to a drop in infants’ birth weight. Credit: Elke Scholiers/Getty

Women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) exposed to relatively high concentrations of ground-level ozone during pregnancy give birth to lower-weight babies than women who breathe cleaner air1.

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Nature 624, 477 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03808-7

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  1. Tong, M. et al. Sci. Adv. 9, eadh4363 (2023)

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