A new report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine evaluated the impact of air pollution on infants and children up to 8 years old. Assessing “the relationship between time-weighted average exposure during different time windows and forced expiratory volumes,” the research revealed a ”5th to 95th percentile difference in time-weighted average PM10 exposure during the first year of life was associated with a reduced forced expiratory volume in one second of -59.3 mL… at 8 years of age.”

Read it in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.