AIR pollution has been shown to increase the chances of women giving birth to small babies and suffering the condition pre-eclampsia.
Professor Tanja Pless-Mulloli, who led the UK arm of the study at Newcastle University, said: "As air pollution increases we can see that more babies are smaller at birth which in turn puts them at risk of poor health later in life."
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