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ArticleEnvironment international2023

Prenatal exposure to air pollution is associated with structural changes in the neonatal brain.

Brendan Bos, Ben Barratt, Dafnis Batalle, Oliver Gale-Grant, Emer J Hughes, Sean Beevers, Lucilio Cordero-Grande, Anthony N Price, Jana Hutter, Joseph V Hajnal and 3 more

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Article in Environment international, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Brendan BosMRC Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, UK.
Ben BarrattMRC Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, UK.
Dafnis BatalleCentre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK; Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
Oliver Gale-GrantCentre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK; Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
Emer J HughesCentre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK.
Sean BeeversMRC Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, UK.
Lucilio Cordero-GrandeCentre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK; Biomedical Image Technologies, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and CIBER-BBN, Madrid, Spain.
Anthony N PriceCentre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK.
Jana HutterCentre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK.
Joseph V HajnalCentre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK.
Frank J KellyMRC Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, UK.
A David EdwardsCentre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK.
Serena J CounsellCentre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK. Electronic address: serena.counsell@kcl.ac.uk.
King's College London · GBImperial College London · GBUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid · ES

Funding

Department of HealthMedical Research Council MR/S019669/1Medical Research Council MR/T018119/1Medical Research Council MR/T502595/1Wellcome Trust WT203148/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPrenatal exposure to air pollution is associated with adverse neurologic consequences in childhood. However, the relationship between in utero exposure to air pollution and neonatal brain development is unclear.

methodsWe modelled maternal exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO

resultsHigher exposure to PM

conclusionsOur findings show that prenatal exposure to air pollution is associated with altered brain morphometry in the neonatal period, albeit with opposing results for NO

Indexed as

Air PollutionBrainMaternal ExposureAir PollutantsEnvironmental ExposureFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleNitrogen DioxideParticulate MatterPregnancyPrenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsAir PollutantsNitrogen DioxideParticulate MatterBrainMRINeonatePrenatal air pollution exposure

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PMID37058974
PMCPMC10410199
OpenAlexW4363674743

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