Pregnant women living
near the World Trade Center here during the 9/11 terror attacks
experienced higher-than-normal negative birth outcomes, according to
a new study. The study by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs found that these mothers
were more likely to give birth prematurely and deliver babies with
low birth weights. Their babies - especially baby boys - were also
more likely to be admitted to neonatal intensive care units after
birth, according to the study led by the Wilson School's Janet Currie
and Hannes Schwandt. "Previous research into the health impacts
of in utero exposure to the 9/11 dust cloud on birth outcomes has
shown little evidence of consistent effects," said Currie, Henry
Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, director of the
economics department and director of the Wilson School's Center for
Health and Wellbeing. "This is a puzzle given that 9/11 was one
of the worst environmental catastrophes to have ever befallen New
York City. "Our work suggests a simple resolution of this
puzzle, which is that the women who lived in neighbourhoods exposed
to the 9/11 dust cloud had very different experiences than women in
other parts of New York City," Currie said. The collapse of the
two towers created a zone of negative air pressure that pushed dust
and smoke into the avenues surrounding the World Trade Center site.
Other past studies have shown that environmental exposure to the
World Trade Center dust cloud was associated with significant adverse
effects on the health of adult community residents and emergency
workers. Using data on all births that were in utero on September 11,
2001 in New York City and comparing those babies to their siblings,
the researchers found that, for mothers in their first trimester
during 9/11, exposure to this catastrophe more than doubled their
chances of delivering a baby prematurely. Of the babies born, boys
were more likely to have birth complications and very low birth
weights. They were also more likely to be admitted to the NICU. The
neighbourhoods most affected by the 9/11 dust cloud included Lower
Manhattan, Battery Park City, SoHo, TriBeCa, Civic Center, Little
Italy, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. The 9/11 attacks that
killed nearly 3,000 people were a series of four coordinated terror
attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the US
in New York City and the Washington, DC, metropolitan area on
September 11, 2001.
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