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Prenatal exposure to ambient air temperature and risk of early delivery.
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- Ambient temperature and ozone exposure increases the risk of preterm birth in Northeast China: a time series analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Net benefit of smaller human populations to environmental integrity and individual health and wellbeing.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Extreme Temperature Exposure and Risks of Preterm Birth Subtypes Based on a Nationwide Survey in China.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Acute air pollution and temperature exposure as independent and joint triggers of spontaneous preterm birth in New South Wales, Australia: a time-to-event analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Adverse effects of temperature on perinatal and pregnancy outcomes: methodological challenges and knowledge gaps.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- Effect of Elevated Ambient Temperature on Maternal, Foetal, and Neonatal Outcomes: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Low and High Ambient Temperatures during Pregnancy and Birth Weight among 624,940 Singleton Term Births in Israel (2010-2014): An Investigation of Potential Windows of Susceptibility.Environmental health perspectives · 2021Article
- Extreme temperature and out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest. Nationwide study in a hot climate country.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundPreterm birth is a major determinant of adverse health consequences, and early term births are also associated with increased risk of various outcomes. In light of climate change, the effect of ambient temperature on earlier delivery is an important factor to consider. Several studies have focused on associations of ambient air temperature (Ta) on preterm birth, but few have examined associations with early term births.
aimsTo investigate the association of prenatal exposure to Ta with preterm birth (<37 completed gestation weeks) and with early-term birth (<39 completed gestation weeks) in a semi-arid climate.
methodsAll singleton deliveries at the Soroka Medical Center from the Southern district of Israel, with estimated conception dates between May 1, 2004 and March 31, 2013 (N = 62,547) were linked to prenatal Ta estimates from a spatiotemporally resolved model, with daily 1 km resolution. We used time-dependent Cox regression models with weekly mean Ta throughout gestation, adjusted for calendar month and year of conception, ethnicity, census-level socio-economic status and population density.
resultsTa was positively associated with late preterm birth (31 + 0/7 - 36 + 6/7 weeks), with increased risk in the upper Ta quintile as compared to the third quintile, hazard ratio (HR) = 1.31, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.11-1.56. Ta also associated with early term birth (37 + 0/6 - 38 + 6/7), with increased risk in the upper Ta quintile as compared to the third quintile, HR = 1.24, 95% CI = 1.13-1.36.
conclusionExposure to high ambient temperature during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk of preterm and early term birth in southern Israel.
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