The INMA Project: “Growing up in a neighborhood with pollution, growing up in a neighborhood with clean air”

16/02/2021

The INMA Project is today news on the cover of EL PAIS

Growing up in a neighborhood with pollution, growing up in a neighborhood with clean air
An investigation that has lasted for 20 years, with babies who are now adolescents, shows how pollution affects the development of Spanish children

“One of the first results obtained with the data from the volunteers is that, on average, babies whose mothers lived in areas with more polluted air weighed less and were smaller at birth”

“If here the babies are already adolescents, in Finland there are still active investigations with people born in the 60s and 80s, and in the United Kingdom there are now those that follow the children of the first children”

“I think I began to be aware of what was happening at the age of seven, I knew it was to do an experiment with people my age,” says Arantxa. “I have had all kinds of tests done, but I have always liked it a lot, I feel important and it amuses me”

“With contamination, we have found a lot to do with attentional function, memory, mental development and motor skills; which is also very consistent with the results of other studies ”, emphasizes Mònica Guxens, director of the INMA project

Link to the news in EL PAIS: https://elpais.com/clima-y-medio-ambiente/2021-02-15/crecer-en-un-barrio-con-contaminacion-crecer-en-un-barrio-con-aire-limpio.html