ArticlePaediatric and perinatal epidemiology2022
Air pollution and fecundability: Results from a Danish preconception cohort study.
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- Ambient traffic related air pollution in relation to ovarian reserve and oocyte quality in young, healthy oocyte donors.Environment international · 2024Article
- Air pollution and pregnancy.Seminars in perinatology · 2023Article
- Associations of Exposure to Air Pollution during the Male Programming Window and Mini-Puberty with Anogenital Distance and Penile Width at Birth and at 1 Year of Age in the Multicenter U.S. TIDES Cohort.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Air pollution and fecundability in a North American preconception cohort study.Environment international · 2023Article
- Socioeconomic status and fecundability in a Danish preconception cohort.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Changes in tropospheric air quality related to the protection of stratospheric ozone in a changing climate.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAnimal and epidemiologic studies indicate that air pollution may adversely affect fertility. Epidemiologic studies have been restricted largely to couples undergoing fertility treatment or have retrospectively ascertained time-to-pregnancy among pregnant women.
objectivesWe examined the association between residential ambient air pollution and fecundability, the per-cycle probability of conception, in a large preconception cohort of Danish pregnancy planners.
methodsDuring 2007-2018, we used the Internet to recruit and follow women who were trying to conceive without the use of fertility treatment. Participants completed an online baseline questionnaire eliciting socio-demographic characteristics, lifestyle factors, and medical and reproductive histories and follow-up questionnaires every 8 weeks to ascertain pregnancy status. We determined concentrations of ambient nitrogen oxides (NO
resultsDuring 12 months of follow-up, 73% of participants conceived. Higher concentrations of PM
conclusionsIn this preconception cohort study of Danish women, residential exposures to PM
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