ArticleEpidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)2018
Exposures to Air Pollution and Risk of Acute-onset Placental Abruption: A Case-crossover Study.
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- Silent Harm: How Ambient Air Pollution Threatens Prenatal and Neonatal Health. A Systematic Review.Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria · 2025Pooled it
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- Association of Ambient Air Pollution and Temperature Exposure with Placental Abruption: A Nested Case-Control Study Based on Live Birth Registrations.Environmental health perspectives · 2025Article
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- A case-crossover study of air pollution exposure during pregnancy and the risk of stillbirth in Tehran, Iran.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Prenatal exposure to air pollution during the early and middle stages of pregnancy is associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes at ages 1 to 3 years.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2024Article
- Prenatal Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Cerebral Palsy.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Cohort Profile: The Mothers and Newborns (MN) Cohort of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health.International journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Major air pollution and climate policies in NYC and trends in NYC air quality 1998-2021.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Air pollution and pregnancy.Seminars in perinatology · 2023Article
- Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Perinatal Outcomes of Placental Abruption-Detailed Annual Data and Clinical Perspectives from Polish Tertiary Center.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Association between Maternal Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and the Risk of Preterm Birth: A Birth Cohort Study in Chongqing, China, 2015-2020.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A methodological pipeline to generate an epigenetic marker of prenatal exposure to air pollution indicators.Epigenetics · 2022Article
- Air Pollution and Risk of Placental Abruption: A Study of Births in New York City, 2008-2014.American journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Maternal Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Pregnancy Complications in Victoria, Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Relation of outbursts of anger and the acute risk of placental abruption: A case-crossover study.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2019Article
- Ambient PMInhalation toxicologyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundDespite abruption's elusive etiology, knowledge of triggers that precede it by just a few days prior to delivery may help to understand the underpinnings of this acute obstetrical complication. We examine whether air pollution exposures immediately preceding delivery are associated with acute-onset abruptions.
methodsWe applied a bidirectional, time-stratified, case-crossover design to births with an abruption diagnosis in New York City, 2008-2014. We measured ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). We fit distributed lag nonlinear models based on conditional logistic regression to evaluate individual exposure and cumulative exposures over lags 0-7 days before abruption, adjusted for temperature and relative humidity (similar lags to the main exposures).
resultsWe identified 1,190 abruption cases. We observed increased odds of abruption for exposure to PM2.5 (per 10 μg/m) on lag day 3 (odds ratio [OR] 1.19, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.98, 1.43), lag day 4 (OR 1.21, 95% CI = 1.01, 1.46), and lag day 5 (OR 1.17, 95% CI = 1.03, 1.33). Similarly, the odds of abruption increased with exposure to NO2 (per 5 ppb) on lag day 3 (OR 1.16, 95% CI = 0.98, 1.37), lag day 4 (OR 1.19, 95% CI = 1.02, 1.39), and lag day 5 (OR 1.16, 95% CI = 1.05, 1.27). Exposures to PM2.5 and NO2 at other lags, or cumulative exposures, were not associated with abruption of acute onset.
conclusionsThis case-crossover study showed evidence of an association between short-term ambient air pollution exposures and increased abruption risk of acute onset.
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