ArticlePloS one2018
Association between particulate air pollution exposure during pregnancy and postpartum maternal psychological functioning.
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- Maternal air pollution exposure and postpartum depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of global health · 2026Pooled it
- Air pollution, depressive and anxiety disorders, and brain effects: A systematic review.Neurotoxicology · 2022Pooled it
- Revisiting 'environmental effects': Directions for multidisciplinary investigations of air quality and psychopathology.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Article
- Environmental Chemicals and Maternal Depression During and After Pregnancy: a Scoping Review.Current environmental health reports · 2026Article
- Air pollution and postpartum depression: the interplay with prenatal stress.Research square · 2026Article
- Air pollution mixture exposure during pregnancy and postpartum psychological functioning: racial/ethnic- and fetal sex-specific associations.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025Article
- Association between Prenatal Particulate Matter Exposure and Neuropsychiatric Disorders Development.Biomolecules & therapeutics · 2025Review
- Joint effects of traffic-related air pollution and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy on maternal postpartum depressive and anxiety symptoms.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025Article
- Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution and persistent postpartum depression.The Science of the total environment · 2024Article
- Association of Postpartum Temperature Exposure with Postpartum Depression: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Southern California.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Spatial and temporal determinants of particulate matter peak exposures during pregnancy and early postpartum.Environmental advances · 2024Article
- Association between prenatal and childhood PMEnvironmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- Association of Antepartum and Postpartum Air Pollution Exposure With Postpartum Depression in Southern California.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Air Pollution and Perinatal Mental Health: A Comprehensive Overview.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Association between ambient air pollution and perceived stress in pregnant women.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Prenatal ambient air pollution and maternal depression at 12 months postpartum in the MADRES pregnancy cohort.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2021Article
- Identifying urban built environment factors in pregnancy care and maternal mental health outcomes.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Observational
- Exposure to particulate matter, prenatal depressive symptoms and HPA axis dysregulation.Heliyon · 2021Article
- Chronic exposure to air pollution and risk of mental health disorders complicating pregnancy.Environmental research · 2021Article
- Particulate air pollution exposure during pregnancy and postpartum depression symptoms in women in Mexico City.Environment international · 2020Article
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Abstract
methodsWe studied associations between prenatal exposure to particulate matter with diameter ≤ 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and postpartum psychological functioning in a lower income, ethnically mixed sample of urban US women enrolled in a pregnancy cohort study. Analyses included 557 mothers who delivered at ≥37 weeks gestation. Daily estimates of residential PM2.5 over gestation were derived using a satellite-based spatio-temporally resolved model. Outcomes included the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) score from 6 or 12 months postpartum and subscale scores for anhedonia, depressive and anxiety symptoms. Associations were also examined within racial/ethnic groups. Distributed lag models (DLMs) were implemented to identify windows of vulnerability during pregnancy.
resultsMost mothers had less than a high school education (64%) and were primarily Hispanic (55%) and Black (29%). In the overall sample, a DLM adjusted for age, race, education, prenatal smoking, and season of delivery, we found significant associations between higher PM2.5 exposure in the second trimester and increased anhedonia subscale scores postpartum. In race stratified analyses, mid-pregnancy PM2.5 exposure was significantly associated with increased total EPDS scores as well as higher anhedonia and depressive symptom subscale scores among Black women.
conclusionsIncreased PM2.5 exposure in mid-pregnancy was associated with increased depressive and anhedonia symptoms, particularly in Black women.
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