Prenatal exposure to air pollution is associated with childhood inhibitory control and adolescent academic achievement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prenatal air pollution exposure is associated with reductions in self-regulation and academic achievement. Self-regulation has been separately linked with academic achievement. Understudied, however, are the contributions of pollution exposure to inhibitory control, a facet of self-regulation, and whether pollution-related inhibitory control deficits are associated with impairment in academic achievement.

Methods

Participants were recruited from a prospective birth cohort. Measures of prenatal airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) during the third trimester of pregnancy, inhibitory control (NEPSY Inhibition) at mean age = 10.4 years, and Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement-III at mean age = 13.7 were available for N = 200 participants. Multiple linear

SUBMITTER: Margolis AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8578437 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature