Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Nitrate in maternal drinking water may impair fetal growth

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/uoia-nim020821.php

 

News Release 9-Feb-2021
University of Illinois at Chicago

Women whose household drinking water contained nitrate had babies that weighed, on average, 10 grams less than babies born to mothers where household water had no detectible nitrate, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago and Aarhus University.

The study, which is published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, followed pregnant women living in Denmark. The researchers found that even low nitrate levels -- about half of the allowable level set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA -- caused an adverse effect.



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