14th Scientific Conference on Children and the Environment-INMA
The 14th Scientific Conference on Children and the Environment-INMA will take place at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Granada the days 20 and 21 November of 2017.
La registration It is free and you can do it at the following link http://proyectoinma.org/inscripcionjornadasinmagranada2017inma.htm
These conferences are born from the INMA project, which studies the influence of environmental pollutants during pregnancy and the beginning of life on child growth and development. It is a project in which 7 provinces participate, of which one of them is Granada. The Granada researchers belong to the group A-15 of Basic and Clinical Oncology of the ibs.GRANADA.
El Conference program you can download it from here.
THE PROJECT:
INMA - Children and the Environment is a research network of Spanish groups. This created a project with the objective of studying the role of the most important environmental pollutants in the air, water and in the diet during pregnancy and the beginning of life, and their effects on child growth and development.
The physical, social and intellectual development of the child, from conception to the end of adolescence, requires a protected and protective environment for their health. The increase in diseases is related to unhealthy environments. Prenatal and early life exposures, including diet, are associated with infant health and human development, and predispose later effects in adults.
In this way, the INMA Project is based on three main bases:
1. Thehe exposure to environmental pollutants by air, water and food is universal. Children are especially vulnerable to its effects, as they are not just little adults. They are growing, and their immune system and detoxification mechanisms are not fully developed. For this reason, children are more vulnerable to environmental exposures than adults.
Persistent pollutants such as organochlorine compounds (OCs) and other metals have been linked to intrauterine growth retardation, prematurity, postnatal growth retardation, and neurodevelopmental and behavioral disturbances.
Pollutants a government-protectedFine particles, for example, have been associated with increased infant mortality and health problems such as asthma, allergies, and neurodevelopment.
There is less evidence on the effects of many pollutants during the fetal period, thus creating the need for further studies in order to obtain more data. Also some products in the water, called disinfectant products, have been associated with reproductive problems.
2. Some pollutants and nutrients have the same route of ingestion.
Fish, the main source of omega 3, is also a carrier of OCs and methyl mercury. Breastfeeding, the only form of nutrition during the first month of life, provides both nutrients and pollutants. Although the toxicity mechanisms of OCs are not known, it is suggested that the underlying metabolic and hormonal mechanisms involved in the neurotoxicity of these pollutants are in the same way as the deficiency of some essential fatty acids.
It remains to be explained whether nutrients can counteract the negative health effects of pollutants.
3. Se knows little about individual susceptibility of certain chemical products, for which more studies integrating environment-gene interactions are necessary.