Escape from Sargasso Sea: Tremendous
            <i>Sargassum</i>
            Blooms Challenge Caribbean and Atlantic Communities

Schmidt, Charles

doi:10.1289/ehp13418

Environ Health Perspect

2023

DOI: 10.1289/ehp13418

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Escape from Sargasso Sea: Tremendous Sargassum Blooms Challenge Caribbean and Atlantic Communities

Charles Schmidt

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Sargassum Inundations and the Risk of Hypertension Disorders Among Pregnant Women Living in the French Caribbean Island of Martinique

Banydeen,

Rejaudry Lacavalerie,

Savoyen

et al. 2024

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Since 2011, Caribbean territories have experienced massive and repeated sargassum seaweed inundations. Once on shore, sargassum degradation through anaerobic metabolism elicits the release of many noxious molecules, including hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and ammonia (NH3). H2S has been long recognized as a malodorous and highly toxic gas, while chronic exposure has not been extensively explored. Our objective was to assess whether pregnant women exposed to sargassum emissions would be more prone to developing hypertensive disorders compared to unexposed women. We conducted a retrospective study including 3020 pregnant women at the Obstetrics Department of the University Hospital of Martinique between 25 January 2016 and 31 July 2020. Exposure was defined as a distance of less than 2 km between the residence/workplace of the women and the sargassum strandings. Multivariate regression retained age, body mass index, sickle cell disease, primipaternity, gestational diabetes and sargassum emissions exposure as independent predictors of hypertensive events in pregnant women. Jointly with previous studies from our group, this study highlights the deleterious effects of sargassum emissions on human health in individuals chronically exposed to low to moderate H2S concentrations.

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Sargassum Inundations and the Risk of Hypertension Disorders Among Pregnant Women Living in the French Caribbean Island of Martinique

Banydeen,

Rejaudry Lacavalerie,

Savoyen

et al. 2024

IJERPH

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Escape from Sargasso Sea: Tremendous Sargassum Blooms Challenge Caribbean and Atlantic Communities

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Sargassum Inundations and the Risk of Hypertension Disorders Among Pregnant Women Living in the French Caribbean Island of Martinique

Sargassum Inundations and the Risk of Hypertension Disorders Among Pregnant Women Living in the French Caribbean Island of Martinique

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