ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2020
Flaring from Unconventional Oil and Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas.
Article in Environmental health perspectives, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
42 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.
- Oil and Gas Development and Adverse Birth Outcomes: A Qualitative and Quantitative Bias Analysis of the Epidemiologic Literature.Current environmental health reports · 2026Pooled it
- Association between maternal exposure to oil and gas extraction process with adverse birth outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- The public health impacts of mining in Australia.The Medical journal of Australia · 2025Pooled it
- GAS flaring and cancer in the Amazon of Ecuador: an ecological study.Global health action · 2026Article
- Exposures to combustion sources near military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan using satellite observations.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Structural birth defects and exposure to oil and gas wells during pregnancy.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- The Fire That Does Not Go Out: The Neglected Costs of Gas Flaring in Nigeria.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Residential proximity to active and abandoned oil and gas development and risk of childhood Ewing sarcoma in California.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2026Article
- Article
- Assessing Source Contributions to Air Quality and Noise in Unconventional Oil Shale Plays.Research report (Health Effects Institute) · 2025Article
- Analysis of Flaring Activity at Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Export Facilities Worldwide.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- The health burden and racial-ethnic disparities of air pollution from the major oil and gas lifecycle stages in the United States.Science advances · 2025Article
- Equity and reliability of public electric vehicle charging stations in the United States.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Cumulative Human Health Risk Assessment of Regional Ozone and Volatile Organic Compounds from Unconventional Oil and Gas Sites in Colorado's Front Range.Environmental health perspectives · 2025Article
- A Narrative Review of Spatial-Temporal Data Sources for Estimating Population-Level Exposures to Oil and Gas Development in the United States.Current environmental health reports · 2025Review
- Sociodemographic and Population Exposure to Upstream Oil and Gas Operations in Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Invited Perspective: Drilling Down into the Mechanisms Linking Oil and Gas Development to Adverse Perinatal Health Outcomes.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- IMPACT OF REAL-LIFE ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES ON REPRODUCTION: Evidence for reproductive health effects following exposure to hydraulic fracturing chemical mixtures.Reproduction (Cambridge, England) · 2024Review
- The human health effects of unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD): A scoping review of epidemiologic studies.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2024Article
- Air Quality and Health Impacts of Onshore Oil and Gas Flaring and Venting Activities Estimated Using Refined Satellite-Based Emissions.GeoHealth · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundPrior studies suggest exposure to oil and gas development (OGD) adversely affects birth outcomes, but no studies have examined flaring-the open combustion of natural gas-from OGD.
objectivesWe investigated whether residential proximity to flaring from OGD was associated with shorter gestation and reduced fetal growth in the Eagle Ford Shale of south Texas.
methodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study using administrative birth records from 2012 to 2015 (
resultsExposure to a high number of nightly flare events was associated with a 50% higher odds of preterm birth [ DISCUSSION: Our study suggests exposure to flaring from OGD is associated with an increased risk of preterm birth. Our findings need to be confirmed in other populations. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP6394.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.