[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Air pollution damages unborn DNA: study
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Air pollution damages unborn DNA: study
Reuters
February 17, 2005
BABIES' DNA can be damaged even before they are born if their mothers breathe
polluted air, according to a new study.
This is the first study to show that environmental exposures to specific
combustion pollutants during pregnancy can result in chromosomal abnormalities
in fetal tissues," said Kenneth Olden, director of the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences, which funded the study.
"These findings may lead to new approaches for the prevention of certain
cancers."
The team at the Columbia University Center for Children's Environmental Health
in New York studied 60 newborns for the report, published in the February issue
of the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention.
As part of a larger study, they monitored the babies' exposure to
polycyclicaromatic hydrocarbons, which are compounds produced by burning.
"Although the study was conducted in Manhattan neighborhoods, exhaust
pollutants are prevalent in all urban areas, and therefore the study results
are relevant to populations in other urban areas," said Dr Frederica Perera,
who led the study.
To determine exposure to pollution, the mothers filled out questionnaires and
wore portable air monitors during the last three months of their pregnancies.
Women were rated as having high, moderate or low exposure based on average
pollution levels for the group.
Then they tested the umbilical cord blood of the newborns, looking specifically
at the chromosomes, which carry the DNA. Damage to chromosomes can cause
cancer.
"We observed 4.7 chromosome abnormalities per thousand white blood cells in
newborns from mothers in the low exposure group, and 7.2 abnormalities per
thousand white blood cells in newborns from the high exposure mothers," Perera
said in a statement.
The kind of damage to the chromosomes that they say was the type that tends to
linger, making people more susceptible to cancer.
Other studies have linked exposure to pollution with leukemia and other
cancers.
"While we can't estimate the precise increase in cancer risk, these findings
underscore the need for policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels to
take appropriate steps to protect children from these avoidable exposures,"
Perera said.
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