ArticleEnvironmental research2020
Prenatal exposure to traffic and ambient air pollution and infant weight and adiposity: The Healthy Start study.
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- Association between Personal Abiotic Airborne Exposures and Body Composition Changes among Healthy Adults (60-69 Years Old): A Combined Exposome-Wide and Lipidome Mediation Approach from the China BAPE Study.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Prenatal ambient air pollution exposure and child weight trajectories from the 3rd trimester of pregnancy to 2 years of age: a cohort study.BMC medicine · 2023Article
- Susceptible windows of exposure to fine particulate matter and fetal growth trajectories in the Spanish INMA (INfancia y Medio Ambiente) birth cohort.Environmental research · 2023Article
- Using non-parametric Bayes shrinkage to assess relationships between multiple environmental and social stressors and neonatal size and body composition in the Healthy Start cohort.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2022Article
- Ambient air pollution during pregnancy and DNA methylation in umbilical cord blood, with potential mediation of associations with infant adiposity: The Healthy Start study.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Health Outcomes in Children Associated with Prenatal and Early-Life Exposures to Air Pollution: A Narrative Review.Toxics · 2022Review
- Obesity II: Establishing causal links between chemical exposures and obesity.Biochemical pharmacology · 2022Review
- Ambient air pollution during pregnancy and cardiometabolic biomarkers in cord blood.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2022Article
- Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution and traffic and indicators of adiposity in early childhood: the Healthy Start study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022Article
- Association between prenatal exposure to ambient ozone, birth weight, and macrosomia in healthy women.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollutants and early infant growth and adiposity in the Southern California Mother's Milk Study.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrenatal exposures to ambient air pollution and traffic have been associated with adverse birth outcomes, and may also lead to an increased risk of obesity. Obesity risk may be reflected in changes in body composition in infancy.
objectiveTo estimate associations between prenatal ambient air pollution and traffic exposure, and infant weight and adiposity in a Colorado-based prospective cohort study.
methodsParticipants were 1125 mother-infant pairs with term births. Birth weight was recorded from medical records and body composition measures (fat mass, fat-free mass, and adiposity [percent fat mass]) were evaluated via air displacement plethysmography at birth (n = 951) and at ~5 months (n = 574). Maternal residential address was used to calculate distance to nearest roadway, traffic density, and ambient concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM
resultsParticipants were urban residents and diverse in race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Average ambient air pollutant concentrations were generally low; the median, interquartile range (IQR), and range of third trimester concentrations were 7.3 μg/m
conclusionsWe found limited evidence of an association between prenatal traffic and ambient air pollution exposure and infant body composition. Suggestive associations between prenatal ozone exposure and early postnatal changes in body composition merit further investigation.
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