{"id":622142,"date":"2026-09-20T18:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/622142\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T18:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:54:29","slug":"rare-earth-exposure-can-triple-low-birthweight-risk-chinese-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/622142\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare earth exposure can triple low birthweight risk: Chinese study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds that prenatal exposure to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/rare-earths?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rare earth elements<\/a> can raise the risk of low birthweight, with some substances increasing the danger by more than three times.Researchers tracked 4,891 <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/reproductive-health?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pregnant women<\/a> who gave birth at Wuhan Maternal and Child Health Hospital between 2012 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They measured the concentration of 13 rare earth elements including cerium, ytterbium, and lanthanum in urine samples collected from the mothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study finds that prenatal exposure to rare earth elements can raise the risk of low birthweight,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5560,281202,1657,281207,163,281201,85,87,46,281205,281204,48,36923,1032,281203,281206],"class_list":["post-622142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-beijing","tag-cerium","tag-china","tag-chinese-preventive-medicine-association","tag-health","tag-huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-journal-of-environmental-health","tag-low-birthweight","tag-palestine","tag-rare-earth-elements","tag-united-states","tag-wang-youjie","tag-wuhan-maternal-and-child-health-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}