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Researchers presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Barcelona that babies with a higher genetic risk for COPD showed reduced lung function growth from birth to age six. This slowed growth was observed only in children exposed to higher levels of air pollution. The findings suggest that early lung development, influenced by both genetics and environmental pollution, may set a trajectory toward COPD later in life.

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