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Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water May Trigger Childhood Asthma
Researchers found the asthma link only at very high prenatal exposure levels, and said the association was not seen at lower levels.
- On Thursday, researchers published a study in PLOS Medicine linking prenatal exposure to 'forever chemicals' to childhood asthma, with children facing a 40 percent higher risk of developing the condition.
- Residents of Ronneby, Sweden, unknowingly drank water contaminated by AFFF runoff for more than 30 years after a military airfield fire suppressant seeped into municipal waterworks.
- Lund University researchers followed more than 11,000 children born between 2006 and 2013, finding elevated asthma risk only in the 'very high' prenatal exposure category, not at lower levels.
- "These results point to a substantial and previously unrecognized public health consequence," said Annelise Blomberg, a Lund University researcher, who emphasized the need for replication in other populations.
- Stanford University epidemiology professor Tracey Woodruff urged governments to clean up existing contamination, criticizing the Trump administration's decision to eliminate the EPA's Office of Research and Development.
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Drinking water contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’ during pregnancy linked to an increased risk of childhood asthma – new study
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ecotopical.comSevere Exposure to ‘Forever Chemicals’ During Pregnancy Could Lead to Childhood Asthma
Exposure to “forever chemicals” during pregnancy could increase the risk of childhood asthma, according to new research from Sweden. Researchers from Lund University found that prenatal exposure to very high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, in drinking water corresponded with a higher incidence of childhood asthma in a community dealing with […]
High prenatal exposure to PFAS may increase the risk of childhood asthma
Asthma can lead to childhood hospitalizations, missed school days, missed workdays for caregivers, and a lower quality of life for both children and their caregivers. The global prevalence of asthma has increased over the past 50 years. Now a study published in PLOS Medicine by Annelise Blomberg at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, and colleagues suggests that high prenatal PFAS exposure may play a role.
Prenatal exposure to high ‘forever chemicals’ levels may raise children’s asthma risk
In the town of Ronneby, where drinking water was heavily contaminated for years by firefighting foam, exposure levels were ‘hundreds of times higher than the general population’
Thousands of Kallinge residents drank contaminated drinking water for decades without knowing it. Now a study at Lund University shows that exposure to PFAS during pregnancy can increase the risk of asthma in children. After decades of fire drills at the F17 regiment, PFAS spread to the groundwater and drinking water in large parts of the municipality. The contamination continued for over thirty years before it was discovered in 2013 – and durin…
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