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Researchers have long known that air pollution can increase the risk of disorders such as obesity, diabetes, and fertility, but they did not know the exact mechanism for how it can lead to these health conditions.

•Particles from car exhaust, factory emissions, wildfires, wood-burning stoves implicated

However, this latest study, published on September 8 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, connects the dots on how breathing polluted air can lower fertility. About 92 percent of the world population lives in areas where the level of fine particles in the air smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter exceed the minimum safety standards set by the World Health Organisation. These particles can come from sources such as car exhaust, factory emissions, wildfires, and wood-burning stoves.

 

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