Exposure To Parental Stress Increases Pollution-Related Lung Damage In Children
Thursday, Aug. 11th 2011 6:40 AM
Psychosocial stress appears to enhance the lung-damaging effects of traffic-related pollution (TRP) in children, according to new research from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. The results will appear online ahead of the print edition of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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