ArticleEpidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)2019
Traffic-related Air Pollution and Pregnancy Loss.
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- Ambient air pollution and rate of spontaneous abortion.Environmental research · 2024Article
- Association between gestational exposure to solar activity and pregnancy loss using live births from a Massachusetts-based medical center.Environmental research · 2024Article
- Time series analysis in environmental epidemiology: challenges and considerations.International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health · 2023Review
- Job loss during pregnancy and the risk of miscarriage and stillbirth.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Ultrasound Parameters of Fetal Growth in Eastern Massachusetts.American journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Bias Amplification and Variance Inflation in Distributed Lag Models Using Low-Spatial-Resolution Data.American journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Quantifying diurnal changes in NOHygiene and environmental health advances · 2022Article
- Response to: "Is the full moon fooling us?" by Oberndorfer M, Yang L and Waldhoer T.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2022Article
- Using follicular fluid metabolomics to investigate the association between air pollution and oocyte quality.Environment international · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundTraffic-related air pollution has been linked to multiple adverse pregnancy outcomes. However, few studies have examined pregnancy loss, targeting losses identified by hospital records, a large limitation as it does not capture events not reported to the medical system.
methodsWe used a novel variation of the time-series design to determine the association, and identify the critical window of vulnerability, between week-to-week traffic-related air pollution and conceptions resulting in live births, using nitrogen dioxide (NO2) as a traffic emissions tracer. We used information from all live births recorded at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA (2000-2013) and all live births in Tel Aviv District, Israel (2010-2013).
resultsIn Boston (68,969 live births), the strongest association was during the 15th week of gestation; for every 10 ppb of NO2 increase during that week, we observed a lower rate of live births (rate ratio [RR] = 0.87; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.78, 0.97), using live birth-identified conceptions to infer pregnancy losses. In the Tel Aviv District (95,053 live births), the strongest estimate was during the 16th gestational week gestation (RR = 0.82; 95% CI, 0.76, 0.90 per 10 ppb of NO2).
conclusionsUsing weekly conceptions ending in live birth rather than identified pregnancy losses, we comprehensively analyzed the relationship between air pollution and all pregnancy loss throughout gestation. The observed results, with remarkable similarity in two independent locations, suggest that higher traffic-related air pollution levels are associated with pregnancy loss, with strongest estimates between the 10th and 20th gestational weeks.
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