ArticlePaediatric and perinatal epidemiology2022
Extreme heat and its association with social disparities in the risk of spontaneous preterm birth.
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis on heat thresholds for maternal health and birth outcomes.Nature communications · 2026Pooled it
- Thermal indices for assessing the impact of outdoor thermal environments on human health: a systematic review of epidemiological studies.International journal of biometeorology · 2025Pooled it
- A decomposition analysis to evaluate the role of social, chemical, and neighborhood factors on the Black/White disparity in preterm birth in Greater Houston, Texas.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2026Article
- Association between extreme heat exposure and risk of preterm birth and its effect modifiers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Misspecified seasonality adjustment in temperature and preterm birth studies may introduce severe bias: a real birth cohort-based simulation.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Epigenome-wide DNA methylation and spontaneous preterm birth among pregnant black women.Clinical epigenetics · 2026Article
- Impacts of the Pacific Northwest Heat Dome on preterm birth rates in Oregon and Washington State.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Does humidity matter? Prenatal heat and child health in South Asia.Science advances · 2025Article
- Race, rates, and energy insecurity: exploring racial disparities in electricity costs and consumption in U.S. utility service areas.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Identifying county-level effect modifiers of the association between heat waves and preterm birth using a Bayesian spatial meta regression approach.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Prenatal exposure to ambient temperature and preterm birth: a historical cohort.International journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Measuring Spatial Social Polarization in Public Health Research: A Scoping Review of Methods and Applications.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- Heat Waves and Early Birth: Exploring Vulnerability by Individual- and Area-Level Factors.GeoHealth · 2025Article
- Understanding spatiotemporal variation of heatwave projections across US cities.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Fine Particulate Matter, Its Constituents, and Spontaneous Preterm Birth.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Community-Engaged Research and the Use of Open Access ToxVal/ToxRef In Vivo Databases and New Approach Methodologies (NAM) to Address Human Health Risks From Environmental Contaminants.Birth defects research · 2024Article
- A scoping review on heat indices used to measure the effects of heat on maternal and perinatal health.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Hurricane Harvey and the risk of spontaneous preterm and early-term birth.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- Indoor Temperature and Energy Insecurity: Implications for Prenatal Health Disparities in Extreme Heat Events.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Examining modification of the associations between air pollution and birth outcomes by neighborhood deprivation in a North Carolina birth cohort, 2011-2015.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundClimate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heatwaves. Prior studies associate high temperature with preterm birth.
objectivesWe tested the hypotheses that acute exposure to extreme heat was associated with higher risk of live spontaneous preterm birth (≥20 and <37 completed weeks), and that risks were higher among people of colour and neighbourhoods with heat-trapping landcover or concentrated racialised economic disadvantage.
methodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study of people giving birth between 2007 and 2011 in Harris County, Texas (Houston metropolitan area) (n = 198,013). Exposures were daily ambient apparent temperature (AT
resultsThe frequency of preterm birth was 10.3%. A quarter (26.8%) of people were exposed to AT
conclusionsAmbient heat was associated with spontaneous preterm birth, with stronger associations earlier in pregnancy and in racially and economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods, suggesting climate change may worsen existing social inequities in preterm birth rates.
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