(Adnkronos) - “Il rapporto Sentieri evidenzia un aumento del 20% di patologie per le prime fasi di vita dei bambini, ma anche un amento di malformazioni congenite in sette dei 21 siti che sono coperti dal registro. Questi casi meritano un approfondimento analitico perché i bambini sono maggiormente vulnerabili all’effetto dell’inquinamento ambientale”. Così il membro del Dipartimento Ambiente e Salute dell’Istituto Superiore della Sanità, Ivano Iavarone, a margine della convention organizzata dall’Ail dove ha illustrato la sesta edizione del rapporto Sentieri.
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00:00 The report that was published recently, in relation to the presentation I gave today at the AIL,
00:09 on the health status of children, adolescents and young people who reside in contaminated sites,
00:15 the report identifies some criticisms among young children who reside in sites of interest for the
00:23 Italian contaminated sites. There are 46 sites and the study has analyzed the health profile of mortality,
00:33 hospitalization and the risk of congenital malformations in the populations that reside in these areas.
00:41 The main results are mainly due to the number of children recovered, not so much on the mortality rate
00:50 but on the hospitalization rate. In the first year of life we have seen an increase of about 8%
00:59 of children recovered for all natural causes, which increases by 20% the number of recovered
01:09 for pathologies that are pathologies of birth, therefore in the early stages of life.
01:16 Also in the first year of life we have seen an increase, an excess of congenital malformations
01:25 in 7 of the 21 sites that are covered by a record for congenital malformations.
01:32 These data also find some confirmation in the advanced stages of life, an increase of 3-5%
01:42 of children recovered for all natural causes at the age of 0-19 years, but also among young people
01:49 20-29 years and about 4% of children recovered among young people for respiratory diseases.
01:58 The important aspect to underline is that the Sentieri study describes a health profile and
02:06 especially for some rare pathologies, even if it is a descriptive study, not analytical,
02:14 that puts in relation to specific contaminants, indicates that from a public health point of view
02:22 these excesses and mismatches deserve an analytical deepening.
02:27 So there is a need to deepen the individual causes in excess with the individual contaminants
02:33 in the different contaminated sites, but without a doubt these excesses indicate the need
02:40 to make analytical deepening, because children are more vulnerable to the effect of environmental pollution
02:48 and therefore even if these excesses are based on a number of cases, they are undoubtedly
02:56 to be taken into account from a preventive intervention point of view and above all to encourage
03:03 the realization of the bonuses that, as we know, are very late in these areas.