Air pollution affects thyroid development in fetuses

Monday, September 17, 2018 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

Soot and dust alters thyroid development in fetuses before they are born in smoggy cities, raising concern about health impacts later in life, new research shows. Scientists focused on more than 2,000 kids in smoggy Southern California as part of USC's ongoing Children's Health Study.

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