APTN - August 8, 2003 1. Paige Fillion-Hornbacher playing with her 22 month old son Noah 2. Close-up Noah playing 3. Medium shot, Noah playing on floor 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Paige Fillion-Hornbacher, was eight months pregnant with son Noah on 9-11: "It was rough. It was like living in a war zone." FEMA File - September 16, 2001 5. Wide shot aerial, Ground Zero smoking FEMA File - September 20, 2001 6. Interior board room in building near Ground Zero 7. Interior office near Ground Zero covered in soot and ash APTN - August 8, 2003 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Paige Fillion-Hornbacher, was eight months pregnant with son Noah on 9-11: "Ground Zero unfortunately provided a ready laboratory so I thought it was important to participate so that they learned something from it especially if we were going to live there." 9. Medium shot Noah drinking chocolate milk 10. Medium shot Dr. Trudy Berkowitz, who performed the study 11. Close-up Dr. Berkowitz showing a map of lower Manhattan 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Trudy Berkowitz, Researcher: "We found that women who were inside or near the World Trade Center and were pregnant on 9-11 were twice as likely to have a small for gestational age infant - that is an infant whose birth weight is small given the length of the pregnancy." 13. Cutaway Dr. Berkowitz 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Trudy Berkowitz, Researcher: "There is some evidence that small for gestational age infants may not completely catch up in terms of height or body size in later childhood and adolesence. There are also some other potential health risks." 15. Close-up toy, tilt up to show Noah 16. Wide shot Noah and his mother playing with toys STORYLINE: Air pollution from the World Trade Center attacks may have resulted in smaller babies among pregnant mothers who were in or near the collapsing towers, preliminary research suggests. Exposed pregnant women in the study faced double the risk of delivering babies who were up to about a half-pound smaller than babies born to non-exposed women. The size differences among babies born to women exposed to dirt and soot from the attacks suggest a condition called intrauterine growth restriction, or IUGR, which has been linked with exposure to air pollution. Previous research has also found that babies affected by IUGR may be at increased risk for heart disease, hypertension and other health problems in adulthood, according to researcher Dr. Trudy Berkowitz. Paige Fillion-Hornbacher was eight months pregnant on 9-11 and lived just six blocks from Ground Zero. Her son Noah was born with a slightly low birth weight but has no medical problems. Fillion-Hornbacher said it was important for her to be a part of the study because there was a limited amount of scientific data on how much air pollution affects infants and unborn children. The study appeared in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. It is one of several ongoing efforts to track the health effects of the World Trade Center attack. Some reports have found respiratory problems and post-traumatic disorder in people who survived the attacks. The pregnancy research involved 182 women, including 12 who were in the towers on September 11, 2001, when terrorists slammed hijacked jets into the buildings. Most of the others were within a half-mile of the site. Their babies were compared with 2,400 infants born at Mount Sinai's hospital in Manhattan to women who were pregnant during the attacks but weren't near the site. Exposed women's babies were not more likely to be born prematurely or to have abnormally low birth weights. But their slightly lower weights suggest they were born relatively small for their gestational age, a definition of IUGR. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/11f22586cc6f34e0f997f74077942aeb Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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