and a graduate program director and special assistant professor of speech-language-hearing science at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York
PM2.5 particles are small enough to work their way deep into the lungs and into the bloodstream, where they can trigger heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer and asthma, reads the study, co-authored by Richard Mueller, a physics professor at University of California, Berkeley
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1 Smoking during pregnancy can increase the risk for miscarriage, congenital anomalies, stillbirth, fetal growth restriction, preterm birth, placental abruption, and complications in the offspring, including sudden infant death syndrome and impaired lung function in childhood