ArticleEnvironmental health and preventive medicine2021
Outdoor air pollution and diminished ovarian reserve among infertile Korean women.
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- Assessment of ovarian dysfunction induced by environmental toxins: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Air pollutants and ovarian reserve: a systematic review of the evidence.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Ambient PMEnvironmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2026Article
- Declines in ovarian reserve associated with ambient ozone exposure: mediating role of lipid profile.Lipids in health and disease · 2026Article
- Cortisol-to-cortisone ratio postpartum is associated with anti-Müllerian hormone a decade later: evidence from a prospective study.Endocrine connections · 2026Article
- Protecting laboratory air quality and comparing clinical assisted reproductive technology cycle outcomes before, during and after wildfire events: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2026Article
- Living in a chemical cocktail: real-world mixture exposures and their impact on ovarian function.The Journal of reproduction and development · 2026Review
- Environmental pollution and human fertility: investigating the relationship between PM2.5 exposure and assisted reproductive technology outcomes.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The effect of chronic inflammation on female fertility.Reproduction (Cambridge, England) · 2025Review
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- Alkali and alkaline earth elements in follicular fluid and the likelihood of diminished ovarian reserve in reproductive-aged women: a case‒control study.Journal of ovarian research · 2024Article
- Exposure to air pollution and ovarian reserve parameters.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Ambient traffic related air pollution in relation to ovarian reserve and oocyte quality in young, healthy oocyte donors.Environment international · 2024Article
- Potential factors result in diminished ovarian reserve: a comprehensive review.Journal of ovarian research · 2023Review
- Using follicular fluid metabolomics to investigate the association between air pollution and oocyte quality.Environment international · 2022Article
- Poor ovarian response is associated with air pollutants: A multicentre study in China.EBioMedicine · 2022Article
- Air pollution and fecundability: Results from a Danish preconception cohort study.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundMounting evidence implicates an association between ambient air pollution and impaired reproductive potential of human. Our study aimed to assess the association between air pollution and ovarian reserve in young, infertile women.
methodsOur study included 2276 Korean women who attended a single fertility center in 2016-2018. Women's exposure to air pollution was assessed using concentrations of particulate matter (PM
resultsThe mean age was 36.6 ± 4.2 years and AMH level was 3.3 ± 3.1 ng/mL in the study population. Average AMH ratio was 0.8 ± 0.7 and low AMH was observed in 10.3% of women (n=235). The average concentration of six air pollutants was not different between the normal ovarian reserve and low AMH groups for all averaging periods. In multivariable models, an interquartile range (IQR)-increase in 1 month-average PM
conclusionsIn a cohort of infertile Korean women, there was a suggestive evidence of the negative association between ambient PM concentration and ovarian reserve, highlighting the potential adverse impact of air pollution on women's fertility.
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