Daily Climate: Women pregnant during heat waves face a higher risk of giving birth to babies with a rare defect causing blindness, according to new research. The study, surveying 15 years of birth defect records in New York state, offers troubling implications for a warmer climate. In the first study to explore a link between extreme heat and birth defects, researchers from the New York Department of Health and The State University of New York at Albany found that even a five-degree increase in temperature...
URL: http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/12/heat-increases-birth-defects
Enclosure: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491926/
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