Scientists of different countries have demonstrated that the climatic crisis does not affect the health of the fetus, babies and young children. This is reported by the publication of Guardian with reference to six studies published in the magazine Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.
Israel experts analyzed 200 thousand births and found that high air temperature at night is associated with a quick weight gain in babies and high obesity risks at a later age. Australian scientists have shown that heat also contributes to premature births that can turn into chronic health problems and an increase in the number of hospitalization of children. The risk of premature births increases by 16 percent in those who lived in the hottest places of the state of the new South Wales.
California scientists reviewed two million births and found out that smoke from forest fires that are becoming increasingly frequent against the background of global warming, doubles the risk of serious innate defects (for example, gastrossisiza) when exposed to the mother’s body a month before conception. Review 68 has shown that burning fossil fuels, which causes climate change and pollutes air, is associated with a decrease in fertility and definitions of development – low body weight of newborns and stillbirth.
According to the results of the Danish study, even a small increase in air pollution to levels considered in the European Union is safe, leads to a decrease in conception of about eight percent.