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Extreme heat and risk of early delivery among preterm and term pregnancies.
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High ambient temperature and extreme heat episodes may trigger earlier delivery among term births, and associations were stronger with early-term than with full-term delivery.Abstract:
Background:The relationship between ambient temperature and risk of delivery is poorly understood. We examined the association between heat and risk of delivery among preterm and term pregnancies with the use of a time-to-event design to minimize bias from seasonal variation in conception rates.Methread more
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Associations between high temperatures in pregnancy and risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirths: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Matthew Chersich,Minh D. Pham,Minh D. Pham,Ashtyn Areal,Marjan Mosalam Haghighi,Albert Manyuchi,Callum P. Swift,Bianca Wernecke,Bianca Wernecke,Matthew Robinson,Robyn S. Hetem,Melanie Boeckmann,Shakoor Hajat +12 more
TL;DR: Although summary effect sizes are relatively small, heat exposures are common and the outcomes are important determinants of population health, suggesting that risks might be largest in low and middle income countries.
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Temperature exposure during pregnancy and birth outcomes: An updated systematic review of epidemiological evidence.
TL;DR: The evidence linking birth outcomes with ambient temperature was still very limited, and more related studies are needed worldwide and should be conducted in diversified climate zones, so as to further ascertain the association between temperature and birth outcomes.
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Impact of London's road traffic air and noise pollution on birth weight: retrospective population based cohort study.
Rachel B. Smith,Rachel B. Smith,Daniela Fecht,John S. Gulliver,Sean Beevers,David Dajnak,Marta Blangiardo,Rebecca Ghosh,Anna Hansell,Anna Hansell,Frank J. Kelly,H. Ross Anderson,H. Ross Anderson,Mireille B. Toledano,Mireille B. Toledano +14 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that air pollution from road traffic in London is adversely affecting fetal growth and there is little evidence for an independent exposure-response effect of traffic related noise on birth weight outcomes.
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Heat Exposure and Maternal Health in the Face of Climate Change
Leeann Kuehn,Sabrina McCormick +1 more
TL;DR: The studies included in this review indicate that not only is there a need for further research on the ways that climate change, and heat in particular, may affect maternal health and neonatal outcomes, but that uniform standards for assessing the effects of heat on maternal fetal health also need to be established.
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Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorders: Causal or Confounded?
TL;DR: Why an association that is specific to a particular time window, when multiple exposure windows are simultaneously assessed, argues against residual confounding by (even unmeasured) non-time-varying factors are explained.
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