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译文 城市空气污染损害胎儿智商 摘要：本文孩子的智商低与母亲矿物燃料物。该研究提供了证据显示出生前暴露于空气污染儿童认知发展产生不良影响。多环芳烃、铅、汞、烟草烟雾,可以破坏全身多器官系统损害胎儿的大脑发育。多环芳烃Bellinger说应采取步骤来减少儿童接触污染物Air pollutants；Fossil fuel burning；automobile exhaust；PAHs；lead poisoning A study in Krakow, Poland, corroborates New York City findings that link childrens lower IQ scores with mothers exposure to compounds created by burning fossil fuels. In a sweltering summer in New York City back in 1999, Yolanda Baldwin was eight months pregnant with her first child. She lived near a gas station and across the street from an intersection choked with exhaust-spewing cars and buses. Sometimes the air was so thick with pollution that she could see it, breathe it, smell it, even taste it. And she often wondered what it might be doing to her unborn child. Now Baldwin and several hundred other mothers whose sons and daughters have been monitored for a decade have an answer: Before children even take their first breath, common air pollutants breathed by their mothers during pregnancy may reduce their intelligence. A pair of studies involving more than 400 women in two cities has found that 5-year-olds exposed in the womb to above-average levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, score lower on IQ tests. The compounds, created by the burning of fossil fuels, are ubiquitous in urban environments. In African American and Dominican communities of New York City, 249 children are being monitored for the effects of environmental contaminants until the age of 11. And across the Atlantic, in Krakow, Poland, another 214 children are participating in a parallel study. The findings in Poland, reported this spring, are strikingly similar to New York City’s: The children whose mothers had above-average exposure to PAHs scored about four points lower on IQ tests than children whose mothers had below-average exposure. The difference in IQs is modest, but experts say it is enough to hamper school performance and perhaps lifelong learning. It is about the same