ArticleEnvironmental research2019
Prenatal exposure to air pollution, maternal diabetes and preterm birth.
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- The relationship between air pollutants and gestational diabetes: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2023Pooled it
- Environmental health influences in pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Maternal exposure to fine particulate matter and autism spectrum disorder in children: population based case-control study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Association of air pollution and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure with gestational diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of translational medicine · 2023Article
- A Review of Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality in the US.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Recurrent preterm birth risk assessment for two delivery subtypes: A multivariable analysis.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
- Carbohydrate intake quality and gestational diabetes mellitus, and the modifying effect of air pollution.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Exposure to air pollutant mixture and gestational diabetes mellitus in Southern California: Results from electronic health record data of a large pregnancy cohort.Environment international · 2022Article
- A Qualitative Study Documenting Black Birthing Individuals' Perspectives on the Disproportionate Rate of Preterm Birth in the Black Community.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution has been associated with preterm birth in several studies. Associations between air pollution and gestational or pre-existing diabetes have been hypothesized but are not well established. We examined the association between air pollution exposure in pregnancy and gestational diabetes and whether the association between air pollution and preterm birth is modified by diabetes (gestational or pre-existing) in a highly polluted area of California. Birth certificates and hospital discharge data from all singleton births from 2000 to 2006 to women living in four counties in the San Joaquin Valley of California were linked to criteria air pollution and traffic density measurements at the geocoded maternal residence. Air pollutants were dichotomized at the highest quartile and compared to the lower three quartiles. Logistic regression models were adjusted for maternal race-ethnicity, age, education, payment of birth expenses, and prenatal care. There were consistent inverse associations between exposure to air pollution during the first two trimesters and gestational diabetes (statistically significant odds ratios (OR) less than 1). When stratified by any diabetes (gestational or pre-existing), associations between air pollution exposure during pregnancy and categories of preterm birth (20-27, 28-31, 32-33, 34-36 weeks) were generally similar with few exceptions of exposures to carbon monoxide (CO) and particulate matter < 2.5 µm (PM
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