{"id":1777,"date":"2026-04-08T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/ozone-smog-may-increase-the-risk-of-ms-in-children-study\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:00:08","slug":"ozone-smog-may-increase-the-risk-of-ms-in-children-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/ozone-smog-may-increase-the-risk-of-ms-in-children-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozone smog may increase the risk of MS in children: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/04\/08\/ozone-smog-increase-risk-ms-children-study\/\" title=\"Ozone smog may increase the risk of MS in children: Study\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iStock-1219545324-800x711.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"A meter labelled OZONE has its dial pointed to the dark red zone.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"160759\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exposure to higher levels of ground-level ozone may significantly increase the risk that children and teens will develop multiple sclerosis (MS), a new Italian study suggests. Researchers found that for every unit increase in ozone levels in the three years preceding the first MS symptoms, the likelihood of a child or adolescent developing the autoimmune [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/04\/08\/ozone-smog-increase-risk-ms-children-study\/\">Ozone smog may increase the risk of MS in children: Study<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/04\/08\/ozone-smog-increase-risk-ms-children-study\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposure to higher levels of ground-level ozone may significantly increase the risk that children and teens will develop multiple sclerosis (MS), a new Italian study suggests. Researchers found that for every unit increase in ozone levels in the three years preceding the first MS symptoms, the likelihood of a child or adolescent developing the autoimmune&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}