ArticleEnvironmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.)2020
Prenatal exposure to particulate air pollution and gestational age at delivery in Massachusetts neonates 2001-2015: A perspective of causal modeling and health disparities.
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- Climate Change-Related Environmental Exposures and Perinatal and Maternal Health Outcomes in the U.S.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Association of ambient fine particulate matter and its chemical constituents with preterm birth: a population-based cohort study with sibling comparison design.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
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- Satellite data for environmental justice: a scoping review of the literature in the United States.Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2024Article
- Semiparametric distributed lag quantile regression for modeling time-dependent exposure mixtures.Biometrics · 2023Article
- Prenatal Exposure to Ambient Particle Radioactivity and Fetal Growth in Eastern Massachusetts.Air quality, atmosphere, & health · 2023Article
- Exposure toEnvironmental health perspectives · 2022Article
- Long-term exposure to PMEnvironment international · 2022Article
- Climate change, women's health, and the role of obstetricians and gynecologists in leadership.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2021Article
- A Co-Twin control study of fine particulate matter and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome risk factors.Environmental research · 2021Article
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Abstract
There is a lack of evidence on causal effects of air pollution on gestational age (GA) at delivery.
methodsInverse probability weighting (IPW) quantile regression was applied to derive causal marginal population-level GA reduction for GA percentiles associated with increased ambient particulate matter with diameter <2.5 μm (PM
resultsFor neonates at 2.5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 97.5th percentiles of GA at delivery, we estimated an adjusted GA reduction of 4.2 days (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.4, 5.0), 1.9 days (1.6, 2.1), 1.2 days (1.0, 1.4), 0.82 days (0.72, 0.92), 0.74 days (0.54, 0.94), and 0.54 days (0.15, 0.93) for each 5 μg/m3 increment in third trimester average PM
conclusionsPrenatal exposure to PM
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