Association between Early Life Exposure to Air Pollution and Working Memory and Attention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although previous studies have reported negative associations between exposure to air pollution and cognition, studies of the effects of prenatal and postnatal exposures in early childhood have been limited.

Objectives

We sought to assess the role exposure to fine particulate matter ([Formula: see text]) during different prenatal and postnatal windows may play in children's cognitive development at school age.

Methods

Within the Brain Development and Air Pollution Ultrafine Particles in School Children (BREATHE) Project, we estimated residential [Formula: see text] exposures by land use regression for the prenatal period and first seven postnatal years of 2,221 children from Barcelona, Spain. The participants ([Formula: see text]) completed computerized tes

SUBMITTER: Rivas I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6791117 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature