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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Over 3 lakh pregnancy losses every year linked to polluted air in South Asia -Kiran Pandey

Over 3 lakh pregnancy losses every year linked to polluted air in South Asia -Kiran Pandey

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published Published on Jan 7, 2021   modified Modified on Jan 9, 2021

-Down to Earth

Northern plains region in India and Pakistan most impacted, meeting India’s air quality standard would have reduced loss by 7 per cent

Pregnant women in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh exposed to poor-quality air may be at higher risk of stillbirths and miscarriages, according to a study published in the Lancet Planetary Health journal January 6 2020.

Some 349,681 pregnancies were lost every year in these three South Asian countries due to exposure to particulate matter (PM) 2.5 concentrations that exceeded India’s air quality standard — more than 40 micro gram per cubic metre ( μg/m³) — estimated the study led by Dr Tao Xue, Peking University.

This accounted for 7 per cent of annual pregnancy losses in the region between 2000 and 2016, said the modelling study.

However, if World Health Organisation's (WHO) PM2.5 limit of 10 μg/m³ is considered, the exposure to toxic air accounted for a much higher loss of pregnancies — 29.2 per cent — in the three countries.

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Down to Earth, 7 January, 2021, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/pollution/over-3-lakh-pregnancy-losses-every-year-linked-to-polluted-air-in-south-asia-74941?fbclid=IwAR1vqM_lM6GtrWBIXzIFIi8QWxmvoUVm0-uX5O8MPcECDpV_jt-BDmn_R6o


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