Prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants may affect weight and size of newborn
Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 20:30
in Health & Medicine
A higher exposure to xenoestrogens -- a type of environmental pollutants acting as hormones -- might affect neonatal weight and size in term infants. Researchers have found a correlation between estrogenic burden in women’s placenta and a higher neonatal weight at birth.