ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2017
A Review of the Effects of Chronic Arsenic Exposure on Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes.
Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 118 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Correlates of prenatal heavy metal contamination in Lebanese infants using cord blood analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Exposure to Metal Mixtures and Childhood Adiposity: An Examination of Periods of Heightened Susceptibility Between Gestation and Late Childhood.Pediatric obesity · 2025Article
- The silent crisis: investigating the impact of environmental pollutants on embryo-fetal development: a narrative review of the Group of Special Interest for Environment of the Italian Society of Fertility and Sterility and Reproductive Medicine.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2025Review
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- Public Water Arsenic and Birth Outcomes in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort.JAMA network open · 2025Observational
- Early pregnancy metal levels in maternal blood and pregnancy outcomes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Association between Maternal Exposure to Arsenic during Pregnancy and Risk of Preterm Birth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Iranian journal of public health · 2024Review
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- Update of the risk assessment of inorganic arsenic in food.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2024Article
- Dynamics of Spatiotemporal Variation of Groundwater Arsenic in Central Rift Vally of Ethiopia: A Serial Cross-Sectional Study.Environmental health insights · 2024Article
- Arsenic and Human Health: New Molecular Mechanisms For Arsenic-Induced Cancers.Current pollution reports · 2023Article
- Associations between area-level arsenic exposure and adverse birth outcomes: An Echo-wide cohort analysis.Environmental research · 2023Article
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- Toxic metal mixtures in private well water and increased risk for preterm birth in North Carolina.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2023Article
- Urinary arsenic and spontaneous pregnancy loss - a hypothesis-generating case-control investigation in western Romania.Chemosphere · 2023Article
- Long-term effects of prenatal arsenic exposure from gestational day 9 to birth on lung, heart, and immune outcomes in the C57BL/6 mouse model.Toxicology letters · 2023Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Exposure to arsenic has a number of known detrimental health effects but impact on pregnancy outcomes is not as widely recognized. This narrative review examines existing epidemiological evidence investigating the association between arsenic exposure via drinking water and adverse pregnancy outcomes. We reviewed published epidemiological studies from around the world on impact of chronic arsenic exposure on spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, neonatal death, post neonatal death, low birth weight and preterm baby. Plausible mechanisms of arsenic toxicity causing adverse pregnancy outcomes were also determined through literature review. There is convincing evidence to support the association between high inorganic arsenic exposure (>50 ppb) and spontaneous abortion, stillbirth and low birth weight. Limitations of certain studies include study design, small sample size, recall constraints and exposure assessment. There needs to be further research investigating the dose metered impact of arsenic exposure on pregnancy outcomes. Further research on impact of low-moderate arsenic concentration exposure on pregnancy outcomes will allow for appropriate public health policy recommendations.
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