ArticleFrontiers in public health2022
Maternal exposure to ambient air pollution and risk of congenital heart defects in Suzhou, China.
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- Air pollution's toll on adverse birth outcomes: key research insights from Chinese epidemiological studies.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Maternal Exposure to Air Pollution During Early Pregnancy and Congenital Heart Disease: An Exploratory Case-Control Analysis from Delhi NCR.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- A nested case-control study of air pollution and congenital heart defects via circulating proteins.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Exposure to traffic-related air pollution and the risk of premature rupture of membranes: a cohort analysis of the Korean CHildren's ENvironmental health Study (Ko-CHENS).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2026Article
- Association between maternal PMFrontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Industrial air pollution and newborn hearing screening failure.Journal of hazardous materials · 2025Article
- Prenatal Exposure to Air Pollution and Pediatric Biliary Atresia: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2025Article
- Ambient Air Pollution and Congenital Heart Disease: Updated Evidence and Future Challenges.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Associations between weekly maternal exposure to ambient particulate matter and congenital heart disease.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- An Overview of Adverse Outcome Pathway Links between PMEnvironment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Review
- Prenatal harmful substances: Thai pregnant women's experiences.Belitung nursing journal · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: More and more studies have investigated the association between maternal exposure to ambient air pollution during pregnancy and incidence of congenital heart defects (CHDs), but results are controversial. The aim of this study was to investigate whether maternal exposure to air pollutants (PM Methods: Based on the birth defect monitoring system of Suzhou city and the Environmental Health Department of Suzhou CDC, the birth defect monitoring data and concentrations of five air pollutants (PM Results: A total of 5,213 infants with birth defects were recruited in this study from 2015 to 2019, the top five birth defects in Suzhou were syndactyly, congenital heart disease, ear malformation, cleft lip and palate, and hypospadias, and the proportion of congenital heart disease increased. The level of maternal exposures (mean ± sd) was highest in first trimester amongst pregnant women in Suzhou city. Compared to other birth defects, we observed significant increasing associations between PM Conclusions: Our study contributes to explore the current state of Suzhou air quality and the association between maternal air pollution exposure and congenital heart defects. Exposure to PM
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