ArticleThe Science of the total environment2022
In-utero exposure to indoor air pollution or tobacco smoke and cognitive development in a South African birth cohort study.
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- Joint effects of indoor air pollution and maternal psychosocial factors during pregnancy on trajectories of early childhood psychopathology.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Association between Maternal Perinatal Stress and Depression on Infant DNA Methylation in the First Year of Life.Research square · 2024Article
- Prenatal tobacco smoke exposure and risk for cognitive delays in infants born very premature.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Indoor air pollution exposure and early childhood development in the Upstate KIDS Study.Environmental research · 2023Article
- DNA methylation as a potential mediator of the association between indoor air pollution and neurodevelopmental delay in a South African birth cohort.Clinical epigenetics · 2023Article
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- Associations of prenatal tobacco and insecticide co-exposures with neurobehavioral responses among children born to pregnant women exposed to cannabis.Neurotoxicology and teratologyArticle
- Exposure to indoor wood smoke, rather than hypoxemia, is a risk factor for cognitive impairment in COPD patients living at high altitude.Chronic respiratory diseaseArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsThere is increasing evidence indicating that air pollution exposure is associated with neuronal damage. Since pregnancy is a critical window of vulnerability, air pollution exposure during this period could have adverse effects on neurodevelopment. This study aims 1) to analyze associations of prenatal exposure to indoor air pollution (particulate matter with diameters ≤10 μm, PM
methodsData of 734 children from the South African Drakenstein Child Health Study were analyzed. Prenatal PM
resultsAn increase of one interquartile range in natural-log transformed PM
conclusionWe found an association of prenatal exposure to indoor air pollution (PM
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