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Extreme heat contributes to rare childhood blindness http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1355851611
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 during crucial developmental stages in pregnancy increased the odds of an infant developing congenital cataracts.
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