A new study has found that pregnant women exposed to higher levels of air pollutants had children with lower IQs, compared to the children of women exposed to lower levels. While the difference was small – 2.5 points on average – it increased to 6.8 IQ points if the mothers’ folate levels had been low during pregnancy. The study will be published in the issue of Environmental Research and is...
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Women caught in a pickle by their own immune systems
ASU scientists develop new hypothesis explaining sex differences in human diseases ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Women get autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis eight times more than men do. On the other hand, women have a smaller risk of getting non-reproductive cancers such as melanoma, colon, kidney and lung cancer. And while there are some...
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