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ArticleEnvironment international2023

Maternal exposure to aircraft emitted ultrafine particles during pregnancy and likelihood of ASD in children.

Sarah A Carter, Md Mostafijur Rahman, Jane C Lin, Ting Chow, Xin Yu, Mayra P Martinez, Pat Levitt, Zhanghua Chen, Jiu-Chiuan Chen, Sandrah P Eckel and 5 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 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

  1. Systematic review and meta-analysis on the health effects of long-term exposure to ultrafine particles.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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  3. Prenatal Exposure to Wildfire and Autism in Children.Environmental science & technology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Sarah A CarterDepartment of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Md Mostafijur RahmanDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Jane C LinDepartment of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Ting ChowDepartment of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Xin YuSpatial Science Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Mayra P MartinezDepartment of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Pat LevittDepartment of Pediatrics and Program in Developmental Neuroscience and Neurogenetics, Keck School of Medicine, The Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Zhanghua ChenDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Jiu-Chiuan ChenDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Sandrah P EckelDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Joel SchwartzDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Frederick W LurmannSonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA, USA.
Michael J KleemanDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Rob McConnellDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Anny H XiangDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: anny.h.xiang@kp.org.
University of Southern California · USKaiser Permanente · USHarvard University · USSonoma Technology (United States) · USUniversity of California, Davis · US

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES007048 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ROB S MCCONNELL · 1996 to 2026
$46.4M
The Impact of Air Pollution Exposure on COVID-19 Severity and MortalityR01ES029963 · NIEHS · KAISER FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI MCCONNELL, ROB S, XIANG, ANNY H · 2019 to 2022
$3.3M
Effects of air pollution and gestational diabetes on autismR56ES028121 · NIEHS · KAISER FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI XIANG, ANNY H · 2017 to 2017
$250k
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES007048NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES029963NIEHS NIH HHS R56 ES028121
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThere is increasing evidence for adverse health effects associated with aircraft-emitted particulate matter (PM) exposures, which are largely in the ultrafine (PM

objectiveTo assess associations between maternal exposure to aircraft ultrafine particles (UFP) during pregnancy and offspring autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis.

methodsThis large, representative cohort study included 370,723 singletons born in a single healthcare system. Demographic data, maternal health information, and child's ASD diagnosis by age 5 were extracted from electronic medical records. Aircraft exposure estimates for PM

resultsOver the course of follow-up, 4,554 children (1.4 %) were diagnosed with ASD. Increased risk of ASD was associated with maternal exposure to aircraft PM DISCUSSION: The results strengthen the emerging evidence that maternal particulate matter exposure during pregnancy is associated with offspring ASD diagnosis and identify aircraft-derived PM

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Air PollutantsAir PollutionAutism Spectrum DisorderAircraftChildChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesEnvironmental ExposureFemaleHumansMaternal ExposureParticulate MatterPregnancyAir PollutantsParticulate MatterAircraft emissionsAir pollutionAutism spectrum disordersChildhood neurodevelopment

Identifiers

PMID37454628
PMCPMC10472925
OpenAlexW4383823154

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