ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2021
Early Pregnancy Exposure to Rare Earth Elements and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Nested Case-Control Study.
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- Adverse effects and underlying mechanism of rare earth elements.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2025Pooled it
- Rare earth mining in Myanmar: an environmental health crisis hidden by conflict.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2026Article
- Association between maternal serum essential trace element concentration in early pregnancy and gestational diabetes mellitus.Nutrition & diabetes · 2025Article
- Occurrence and Exposure Assessment of Rare Earth Elements in Zhejiang Province, China.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sex disparities in the association between rare earth elements exposure and genetic mutation frequencies in lung cancer patients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Rare Earth and Platinum Group Elements In Sub-Saharan Africa and Global Health: The Dark Side of the Burgeoning of Technology.Environmental health insights · 2024Review
- Association between light rare earth elements in maternal plasma and the risk of spontaneous preterm birth: a nested case-control study from the Beijing birth cohort study.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2023Article
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Abstract
Objective: The extensive use of rare earth elements (REEs) in many technologies was found to have effects on human health, but the association between early pregnancy exposure to REEs and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is still unknown. Methods: This nested case-control study involved 200 pregnant women with GDM and 200 healthy pregnant women from the Peking University Birth Cohort in Tongzhou. We examined the serum concentrations of 14 REEs during early pregnancy and analyzed their associations with the risk of GDM. Results: When the elements were considered individually in the logistic regression model, no significant associations were found between REEs and GDM, after adjusting for confounding variables ( Conclusion: The study findings indicated that early pregnancy exposure to lower levels of REE mixture was associated with an increased risk of GDM, and Nd, Pr, and La exhibited the strongest effects in the mixture.
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