The timing of exposure appears crucial, with heightened vulnerability during prenatal development and early childhood when critical neurodevelopmental processes occur.
The research suggests that individuals with genetic predisposition to ASD may be more vulnerable to the harmful effects of air pollution exposure
The implications extend beyond individual health to public policy. How might cities need to adapt their urban planning to protect vulnerable populations? What role could air quality monitoring play in prenatal care?
Actually I don’t see why anything would be done to orevent development of autism, when not much was done for all the already known damage that actual urban development cause
Urban development doesn’t cause air pollution. Cars cause air pollution.
There’s a difference.
Industry also causes air pollution and plenty of it. It’s more visually segregated in developed countries. But as an example, have you ever explored the Pakistani factory video genre on Youtube?
How many cars and how much they are driven around, and how they are driven around depend on urban development.
Urban development -> cars -> pollution
If you want less cars going around, design your cities to allow people not to use them. See recent developments in Paris as an example
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470
¿Por qué no los dos?
Because dense urban development is good, actually, and we don’t need people posting pro-sprawl misinformation.