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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, July 27, 2009) A mother\u2019s exposure to urban air pollutants known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can adversely affect a child\u2019s intelligence quotient or IQ, according to the new study \u201cPrenatal Airborne Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure and Child IQ at Age 5 Years<\/a>.\u201d PAHs are widespread in urban environments and throughout the world as they have many sources, several of which are related to pesticides, including creosote<\/a> used for wood preservation, burning pesticide-laden grass seed fields<\/a>, and exposure to organochlorine pesticides whether banned, yet ubiquitous DDT or the still used insecticide dicofol. Other sources include synthetic turf fields<\/a> and the burning of coal, diesel, oil and gas, or other organic substances such as tobacco. PAHs have been known to be bioaccumulative, carcinogenic and disrupt the endocrine system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new study, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS<\/a>), a branch of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and several private foundations, found that children exposed to high levels of PAHs in New York City had full scale and verbal IQ scores that were 4.31 and 4.67 points lower than those of less exposed children. High PAH levels were defined as above the median of 2.26 nanograms per cubic meter (ng\/m3). A difference of four points, which was the average seen in this study, could be educationally meaningful in terms of school success, as reflected, for example, in standardized testing and other measures of academic performance. However, the researchers point out that the effects may vary among individual children.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis research clearly shows that environmental PAHs at levels encountered in an urban setting can adversely affect a child\u2019s IQ,\u201d said Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., director of NIEHS. \u201cThis is the first study to report an association between PAH exposure and IQ, and it should serve as a warning bell to us all. We need to do more to prevent environmental exposures from harming our children.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study was conducted by scientists from the Columbia University Center for Children’s Environmental Health<\/a>. It included children who were born to non-smoking black and Dominican-American women age 18 to 35 who resided in Washington Heights, Harlem or the South Bronx in New York. The children were followed from utero to 5 years of age. The mothers wore personal air monitors during pregnancy to measure exposure to PAHs and they responded to questionnaires.<\/p>\n

At 5 years of age, 249 children were given an intelligence test known as the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of the Intelligence, which provides verbal, performance and full-scale IQ scores. The test is regarded as a validated, reliable and sensitive instrument for assessing intelligence. The researchers developed models to calculate the associations between prenatal PAH exposure and IQ. They accounted for other factors such as second-hand smoke exposure, lead, mother\u2019s education and the quality of the home caretaking environment. Study participants exposed to air pollution levels below the average were designated as having low exposure, while those exposed to pollution levels above the median were identified as high exposure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decrease in full-scale IQ score among the more exposed children is similar to that seen with low-level lead exposure,\u201d said lead author Frederica P. Perera, Dr.P.H., professor at Columbia\u2019s Mailman School of Public Health and director of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health.<\/p>\n

A 1999 study<\/a> found that PAHs that are abundant in house dusts increase the toxicity of chlorpyrifos<\/a> in vitro, particularly at low levels (i.e., 2-50 FM PAHs with 1-180 nM chlorpyrifos-oxon, a metabolite of chlorpyrifos that inhibits acetyl cholinesterase.<\/p>\n

According to Beyond Pesticides\u2019 wood preservatives campaign<\/a> research, PAHs are one of the three classes of chemicals found in coal-tar creosote that are known to cause harmful health effects. Many of the components of the creosote mixture, such as PAHs, are rapidly absorbed through the lungs, stomach and intestines. Creosote is made up of about 75-85 percent PAHs. PAHs can attach to soil particles and may move with sediments into streams or remain part of a tarlike mass, but they may also move into groundwater in sandy soils low in organic matter. The remaining PAHs are bioaccumulative and carcinogenic. According to ATSDR’s Toxicological Profile on PAHs, “Studies of people show that individuals exposed by breathing or skin contact for long periods to mixtures that contain PAHs and other compounds can also develop cancer.” Creosote contains several carcinogenic PAHs, including benz[a]anthracene, benzo[a]pyrene, and dibenz[a,h]anthracene. The Department of Health and Human Services has determined that these three PAHs are known animal carcinogens. The EPA and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have determined they are probable human carcinogens. <\/p>\n

\u201cIQ is an important predictor of future academic performance,\u201d said Dr. Perera. \u201cFortunately, airborne PAH concentrations can be reduced through currently available controls, alternative energy sources and policy interventions.\u201d<\/p>\n

This study adds to the body of scienific literature that links toxic chemical exposure to intellectual impairment in children. Joseph L. Jacobson, Ph.D., and Sandra W. Jacobson, Ph.D., in “Intellectual Impairment in Children Exposed to Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Utero<\/a>” (1996), conclude that infants and young children whose mothers had eaten a diet of Great Lakes fish contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) suffer adverse neurologic and intellectual function.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticides, July 27, 2009) A mother\u2019s exposure to urban air pollutants known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can adversely affect a child\u2019s intelligence quotient or IQ, according to the new study \u201cPrenatal Airborne Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure and Child IQ at Age 5 Years.\u201d PAHs are widespread in urban environments and throughout the world as they have many sources, several of which are related to pesticides, including creosote used for wood preservation, burning pesticide-laden grass seed fields, and exposure to organochlorine pesticides whether banned, yet ubiquitous DDT or the still used insecticide dicofol. Other sources include synthetic turf fields and the burning of coal, diesel, oil and gas, or other organic substances such as tobacco. PAHs have been known to be bioaccumulative, carcinogenic and disrupt the endocrine system. The new study, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a branch of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and several private foundations, found that children exposed to high levels of PAHs in New York City had full scale and verbal IQ scores that were 4.31 and 4.67 points lower than those of less exposed children. 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The founders, who established Beyond Pesticides (originally as National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides) as a nonprofit membership organization in 1981, felt that without the existence of such an organized, national network, local, state and national pesticide policy would become, under chemical industry pressure, increasingly unresponsive to public health and environmental concerns. Beyond Pesticides believes that people must have a voice in decisions that affect them directly. We believe decisions should not be made for us by chemical companies or by decision-makers who either do not have all of the facts or refuse to consider them. Learn more about our work, read A Year in Review\u20142021, our accomplishments are your victories! Beyond Pesticides seeks to protect healthy air, water, land, and food for ourselves and future generations. By forging ties with governments, nonprofits, and people who rely on these natural resources, we reduce the need for unnecessary pesticide use and protect public health and the environment. Beyond Pesticides provides hands-on services to the public and supports local action by: identifying and interpreting hazards; and, designing safe pest management programs. With the information provided by Beyond Pesticides, people may not only be able to make informed choices and adopt practices that protect themselves and their families from unnecessary exposure to pesticides, but they will be able to effect changes on community-wide pest management decisions and policies that govern pesticide use, such as pesticide uses in parks, schools, for community insect control and along roadsides. 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